OSCE Project Co-ordinator promotes transparency through e-governance in Ukraine

ODESSA, Ukraine, 26 November 2011 – The use of e-governance in enhancing the transparency of state institutions in dealing with domestic and foreign investors is the focus of a national conference that was held in Odessa today with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator (PCU) in Ukraine.

The event gathered representatives of state authorities, e-governance experts and entrepreneurs to discuss how e-governance tools could facilitate business registration procedures and various services for domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors.

“E-governance technologies, as many countries convincingly demonstrate, are an efficient instrument that can help minimize corruption, and improve the overall quality of public services,” said Rene BeBeau, the Senior Project Officer at the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.

The participants also discussed the implementation of PCU-supported e-governance projects in Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa to digitalization administrative services for domestic and foreign investors in these two regions and their possible replication in other regions of Ukraine.

The conference was organized within the Danube Investment Forum – an annual platform for Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Turkey to support co-operation and to leverage investment projects – and was supported by Odessa Regional State Administration. The e-governance component is supported by the PCU in the framework of its e-governance project.