By KYIV. Dec 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a bill on the implementation of the National Informatization Program. According to the information in the card of bill No. 6241, the document returned to the Verkhovna Rada with the signature of the head of state on December 24.
The press service of the parliament said that the bill is aimed at improving efficiency of organizational and legal mechanisms for the development and implementation of the National Informatization Program, provides for an effective mechanism of relations between participants in the process for informatization of the country, digitalization and e-governance.
The document provides for the creation and operation of the Unified Accounting Information System of the National Informatization Program designed for the formation, control, monitoring, processing (acceptance, accounting, processing) and storage of programs, tasks, projects and works of the National Informatization Program, as well as materials for them.
The Digital Transformation Ministry also said that the bill is aimed at increasing the level of cyber defense, which is especially important in wartime, and will help to overcome the digital divide in society by increasing citizens’ access to technology and various opportunities, in particular, in economic, social, cultural, educational fields.
According to the Rules of the Verkhovna Rada, bill No. 6241, signed by the president, will subsequently be published in the Holos Ukrainy (Voice of Ukraine) newspaper, made public on the official website of the parliament, and will enter into force on March 1, 2023.
As reported, on December 1, the Ukrainian parliament backed bill No. 6241 on the National Informatization Program with 286 votes.
