According to the specifications of the tender, the contract is for the supply, implementation and operation of:
A) Platform Interoperability
B) A Procedures Management System that supports analysis, design and development of an electronic application process with an initial 100 government procedures and the approval of five (5) processes
C) The redesign of the portal "PANAMATRAMITA"
D) Provision of operation service for two (2) years of a data center, connectivity and infrastructure support, contingency and security as well as the provision of required servers.
E) An incident management help desk for officials.
Date for submission of proposals is 5 July 2011.
Source: PanamaCompra.gob.pa
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December 2010
The Ministry of Economy and the Authority for Digital Innovation signed an agreement to promote the project.
The agreement provides for the MEF to execute initiatives to enable digitization of processes and electronic exchange of information between state institutions, in order to increase productivity, improve quality of service to users, reduce bureaucracy, provide total governance transparency and reduce administrative costs.
May 2011
The system for performing government transactions online now allows data about procurement processes to be exchanged between institutions.
There are now 14 procedures that can be done online through the Mer-Link system which has been implemented by the Technical Secretariat of Digital Government.
June 2010
The government announced it will invest the sum in the next four years to digitalize state procedures, to make Panama ‘paperless’.
Eudoro Jaén, administrator of the National Authority for Government Innovation, reported that the program comprises digitalizing over 2.800 procedures in State entities.
August 2010
The current government has decide to resume the initiative begun by previous administrations and has set 2014 as its objective.
The director of El Salvador's Institute for Technology and Information Innovation (ITIGES), Norwin Herrera, announced the decision saying that some of the projects definitely going ahead include a virtual front desk to enable import permits to be obtained, online issuing of birth certificates, electronic creditworthiness reports for state procurement, e-payment and a transparency platform," reports ElSalvador.com.
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