The government will hold a cabinet meeting this month on the digital transition and administrative modernisation, the Minister for Youth and Modernisation announced in Parliament on Wednesday.
Margarida Balseiro Lopes said during a hearing in the parliamentary committee on Budget, Finance and Public Administration that the “first council of ministers for the digital transition and modernization will take place at the end of this month” and stressed that “the program of simplification Is debureaucratization “It is among the executive’s priorities.”
During the second semester, the digital strategy for the country, the minister said.
“We cannot move forward with other documents and other strategies that are not aligned with what the country’s digital strategy will be until 2030,” explained Balseiro Lopes, who also announced the reactivation of the advisory board of the Administrative Modernization Agency (AMA).
The aim is to “standardise the way these services respond to citizens” in Lojas do Cidadão and Espaços Cidadão.
The AMA management was dismissed about a month ago and the minister explained that the decision was due, among other issues, to the failure to comply with the schedule of investment in the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), which includes funds worth 348 million euros.
There was a “70% failure to execute the PRR,” the “board of directors was functioning in a irregular” due to lack of an element and there was a human resources problem.
Its alot important treat people well and it is not normal, in two years, to have There are 80 people left“, considered Margarida Balseiro Lopes.
“The national digital strategy” will include “an action plan that implements” the measures until 2030, seeking to “make services public further efficient” and “promote digital inclusion,” among other issues.
We want to build a empowered society for the future“with a more effective public administration, focused on citizens and businesses,” he added.
Source: Observadora
