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e-Strategy and profile of an association of towns and municipalities in view of
information society development
Drawn up for the presentation of big cities of the CR/V4/EU at ISSS/LORIS 2004
Model example--working version
Solc, Repa--KISMO, Jaburkova, Jirova--ZO SMO, 18.2.2004
Association of Towns and Communities of the Czech Republic
A. Identification and contact
| Name of the association (union) |
Association of Towns and Communities of the Czech Republic (SMO CR) |
| State |
Czech Republic (CR) |
| Website |
www.smocr.cz |
| Contact person for e-Strategy and IT benchmarking |
Tomas Rencin, Chairman of the ISMO Committee, rencin@isss.cz, +420 284 001 284 Jaroslav Solc,
member of the ISMO Committee, jaroslav.solc@cityofprague.cz,
+420 236 002 682 |
| Date of drawing up |
17. 2. 2004 |
B. Basic profile of the association and country
| Population of the country |
10.219 million |
| Structure of regional administration division |
Basic unit--municipality: 6249 municipalities Structure according to
population: 1,294 municipalities with over 1 thousand, 131 over 10 thousand, 22 over 50
thousand, 5 over 100 thousand inhabitants
Higher territorial self-governing units--regions: 14 regions
Note: The Capital City of Prague is both a region and a municipality |
| Membership base of the association |
2,457 towns and municipalities (73% of the CR's population) |
| Origination, fundamental goals |
The organisation's roots reach back to 1907; afterwards the development
was interrupted on several occasions. Renewed in 1989. The Union's goals: To support and
develop democracy in the self-government system. To be a constructive partner to the
Government and/or Ministries and Parliament of the CR, to defend and assert the interests
of self-governments. To strengthen municipalities' influence in the legislative sphere. To
contribute to the creation of conditions for preparation and increased professionalism of
elected members of local governments, as well as specialisation of local governments'
employees. To enhance the economic independence of municipalities. To contribute to the
creation of conditions for provision of basic and specific services for towns and
municipalities. To assist in establishing partnerships and other forms of international
cooperation. |
| Bodies and structure of the association |
Assembly--the supreme body of the Union (within 6 months following
municipal elections, possibly also extraordinarily). Council--manages the Union's
activity between assemblies, 93 members.
Board --coordination of activity between boards, 11 members, Chairman - Oldrich Vlasak,
Hradec Kralove Lord Mayor.
Work committees--housing, tourism, transport, energy, financial, for information
systems (ISMO), property, for the disabled, social, regional, education, legislative,
foreign, security and environment.
Office of the Union--at present, 15 employees, departments: legal, foreign, press and
administrative. |
| Resources for securing activity |
Membership fees (89%), state assistance--subsidies (6.4%), own resources
(4.2%) |
| Cooperation with other groupings, primarily international (IULA, CEMR
etc) and membership of them |
Membership of the Joint Consultative Committee of the CR and the
Committee of Regions of the EU (the Union has 5 observers + 5 surrogates), the Congress of
Local and Regional Authorities of the EU (CLRAE, 4 + 3), the CEMR Political Committee (4 +
3) and through CEMR also IULA. |
C. Data on information society development (LORIS topics)
| The association's body responsible for ICT and e-Government issues |
Committee for Information Systems (ISMO, www.munet.cz).
It develops activities pertaining to information systems for self-government. It
promotes use of the internet for the work of town and municipal authorities, cooperates
with ministries in the preparation of standards for self-government, organises specialist
conferences, expresses its opinions on proposed legal rules from the respective area.
The Committee has 18 members, of which 10 members have a decision-making vote
(representatives of Union members) and 8 members have an advisory vote. The Committee
Chairman is RNDr. Tomas Rencin. |
| Governmental body responsible for ICT and e-Government, cooperation with
the association |
Ministry of Informatics of the CR (MI CR, www.micr.cz). It was
constituted on 1. 1. 2003 as the central state administration body for information and
communications technologies, telecommunications and postal services. MI CR has assumed to
the full extent the competences of the Office for Public Information Systems, the
communications section of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, as well as
competences concerning electronic signatures of the Office for Personal Data Protection.
Self-government issues are also in the competence of the Ministry of the Interior of
the CR--Department of Public Administration Informisation (MV CR--OIVS, www.mvcr.cz).
Both ministries collaborate with the ISMO Committee (comments, conference activities,
projects). |
| Other national organisations and associations with relation to
information society and self-government (LORIS) issues |
Association of Regions of the CR (AK CR, www.kr-urady.cz). Informatics Committee of the
Council of AK CR. A number of professionally oriented associations and societies, e.g..
Czech Association for Geoinformation (CAGI, www.cagi.cz),
Czech Association for System Integration (CSSI, www.cssi.cz),
Association for Information Society (SPIS, www.spis.cz),
BMI Association (www.brezen.cz) and others
(telecommunications, trade, education). |
| Existence of a national e-strategy or action plan (name, when it was
drawn up, by whom), its relation to LORIS topics |
State Information and Communications Policy (MI CR, at the end of 2003,
version for comments, making public expected in the first quarter of 2004). |
| Creation of e-strategies of regions, towns and municipalities |
Information strategies of municipalities are also created according to
the requirements for test certificates of public administration information systems in
compliance with Act No. 365/2000 Coll. |
| Number of regions, towns and municipalities having their own websites,
the type of information they make public (e.g. according to the requirements of law,
standards, methodologies) |
The requirements for making information public also arise from Act No.
106/1999 Coll., on free access to information, draft according to the UVIS standard.
Almost all towns and big municipalities have websites. There are no official statistics.
There are portals with references to websites of territorial self-governments in the CR
(ePUSA, www.epusa.cz or MOOL, http://mesta.obce.cz) |
| Degree of provision of on-line information services (according to
e-Government categories: information, one-way interaction, two-way interaction,
transaction) and building up multi-platform on-line services (web, call centres, one stop) |
Mostly services of the information provision category, possibly, supply
of forms. Development of two-way interaction services has been launched, mainly in bigger
towns. Multi-platform solutions are just starting to be developed, sporadic. |
| Conference activities, benchmarking and best practices |
Internet in Public Administration and Self-Government (ISSS/LORIS, www.isss.cz ) conference, regularly since 1998.
Furthermore, professionally oriented conferences (GIS, system integration etc) and special
projects (e.g.. March: Internet Month). Best practice--Golden Crest, a competition for
best websites of towns and municipalities of the CR (http://zlatyerb.obce.cz),
received the Stockholm Challenge Award. |
| Existence of national government support for e-Government development
activities at the local and regional level (programmes, grants, projects) |
Specific projects supported by the Ministry of the Interior of the CR,
especially in relation to public administration reform. |
| Experience and involvement in joint projects, including international,
and projects drawing support from EU funds |
To date, sporadic activities. Participation in TeleCities, Global Cities
Dialogue and Elanet networks. Participation in international projects (e.g. Prague,
Vysocina region). Preparation for use of EU Structural Funds for IT projects (seminars,
publications, the Phare project for absorption capacity development etc) has started. |
| Further experience with solutions pertaining to: Re-engineering,
e-Health, e-Learning, e-Security, e-Democracy, CRM etc |
So far, sporadic and under preparation. Mainly at the level of regions
and bigger towns. |
| Experience and lessons learned, plans |
Strengthening cooperation with the Informatics Committee of the
Association of Regions of the CR. Joint operation of self-government in the dialogue with
state administration. Creation of a platform for collaboration between cities. Development
of international cooperation--exchange of experience, projects. Development of
benchmarking-type activities. |
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