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Georgia offers electronic accreditation system to diplomats

Georgia’s Foreign Ministry introduced a new digital software of diplomatic accreditation as part of the state e-service development. Photo by MFA’s press office.
Agenda.ge, 25 Oct 2016 - 11:33, Tbilisi,Georgia

Georgia has launched an innovative, high technological and easily operable programme-based tool for accreditation to members of diplomatic corps in the country.

Yesterday the Georgian Foreign Ministry introduced New Digital Software of Diplomatic Accreditation as part of the state's efforts to develop e-services in Georiga.

The software ensured better efficiency of diplomat accreditation, including timelines, digital processing, incorporation with other existing databases, and also security of provided and managed data.

It’s a priority of the Georgian Government to implement as much electronic governance and electronic services as possible that will ensure the efficiency of public services in the country,” Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze said when he presented the new system.

The Minister stressed Georgia had greatly advanced recently in this field and he mentioned the country was praised as one of the leaders of e-governance development in the world at a United Nations high level meeting earlier this year.

In addition to the new software, new type of accreditation cards were issued that had special features that significantly reduced their potential to be copied or counterfeit.

The New Digital Software of Diplomatic Accreditation was the result of joint efforts of the Diplomatic Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the Public Service Development Agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia with support from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).