Agenda Uruguay Digital 2025 - Resilient digital society

Agenda: areas, objectives, and goals- (III) Transparency, efficiency, and governance of the public sector

Digital transformation is a responsibility of the government. It is the basis for the construction of a free, open, and inclusive society. It has turned into an essential element to guarantee people´s right in the digital world, the adoption of mechanisms than enhance transparency and accountability, the efficient use of resources within the State, as well as to develop all activities that are necessary to provide quality services.

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Objective VI. Data as asset. To optimise the intensive use of data and information, as key factor for an efficient decision taking, and a public, and efficient management, considering the aspects of ethics, privacy, responsibility, transparency, and no discrimination.

 

27. To strengthen the monitoring and assessment processes of public policies, as well as the integration, opening and visualisation of public data, promoting data science.

28. To use an integrated system of management of the people who work for the Government, consolidating data and services of different modules (emoluments, records, performance, career based on occupations, public service examination and promotions) focused on the person and basis for the decision-taking in human resources policies.

29. To integrate administrative files for them to be used as a source of information for official statistics, updates of sampling frame aiming at gathering information for population, housing, and farming census.

30. To contribute with the assessment and management of environment condition through the digitalisation of the monitoring process and the continuous update of the indicators, maps, and satellite images with regard to environment, water and climate change, as well as providing people of the public and private sector access to the information.

 

Responsible institutions:

Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society

Ministry of Economy and Finance

Agency of Monitoring and Assessment of Public Policies

National Statistics Institute

Ministry of Environment

Ministry of Economy and Finances

Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries

National Bureau of Civil Records

 

Objective VII: Digital enhancement in public organisations. To make changes in the management models, the organisational structure, the information systems and promote the development of digital competencies in the public sector. 

31. To identify and develop digital competencies of public workers for them to evidence the digital transformation of the Government, within the framework of the new administrative career.

32. To enhance the internal management and the decision-taking ability of public organisations through the expansion and adoption of solutions of standardised tools for administrative management and digital documentation, preservation, and digital filing

33. To strengthen the bond between the citizens and the role of the Legislative Branch, enhancing digital communication, filing and documentation.

34. To facilitate the process of filing tax returns and paying taxes for taxpayers, by the implementation of digital tools with pre-loaded data based on the information of electronic invoicing and other available resources.

 

Responsible institutions:

Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society

Ministry of Economy and Finance

National Bureau of Civil Service

Legislative Branch

 

Objective VIII: Public Innovation. To promote the innovation and creativity, fostering the implementation of high added-value solutions and the development of new products and emerging services that allow the anticipation to the needs of people and companies.

35. To develop proactive services, implementing the digital document wallet, single access box, alert systems and applications focused on specific segments.

36. To increase the efficiency and transparency of public purchases, to optimise the hiring procedures and to strengthen transverse information technology systems in the Government: to make information available to the citizens and to apply business intelligence as support for decision-taking.

37. To contribute to strengthen the GovTech ecosystem and to launch the adoption of standards to be applied in the processes of digital transformation, redefinition and creation of services in the Government.

38. To implement systems to monitor and control programs and priority public works which through the application of technologies enable citizenship control and participation.

39. To strengthen the performance of the departmental governments through the implementation of initiatives of smart cities, stressing the local and sustainable development to improve the rendering of services.

40. To enhance the mechanisms of consumer´s rights by implementing a digital platform to carry out mediation hearings and the independent management of consumption conflicts, encouraging the self-management and transparency of results.

 

Responsible institutions:

Regulatory Agency for State Procurement

Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society

Congress of Mayors

Ministry of Economy and Finance

Ministry of Transport and Public Works

Office of Planning and Budget

National Bureau of Civil Service

Universities

 

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