Digitalisation of the State – For Real This Time?

Today it’s possible to pay in shops by phone and to keep a train or tram ticket in one’s device. Most have contentedly forgotten how the insides of the banks where they have their money actually look. But it is still necessary to visit civic offices in person, adapting not only to their opening times but also, frequently, incomprehensible demands. When will the state learn to provide citizens with services electronically? Why didn’t it do so ages ago, when this generally runs smoothly abroad? What’s preventing this? Can the current government change the situation? What specifically is it doing? All of this will come up in a debate on digitalisation of the state administration, whose main guest will be Ivan Bartoš, deputy prime minister for digitalisation and minister for regional development.