The World Bank granted the government a loan of 12 million dollars, for a term of 17 years and six months with a grace period of five years, with the aim of "stimulating the development of information technologies to improve public management in general and spending in particular, in order to advance state reform".
The Minister of Economy and Finance, Danilo Astori, and the vice-president of the World Bank (WB) for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jorge Familiar, signed the agreement on Tuesday 7 November.
This is a World Bank loan of USD 12 million for the Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (AGESIC) and the Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII), the National General Accounting Office (CGN), the General Tax Directorate (DGI), the Single Window for Foreign Trade (VUCE) and the Ceibal Centre.
The loan has a term of 17.5 years with a five-year grace period. It is the first loan in history that both the international organisation and Uruguay have signed digitally.
Stimulating information technologies
"The aim is to stimulate the development of information technologies to improve public management in general and spending in particular, in order to advance in the reform of the state," said Astori after the loan signing.
The Secretary of State said that the move is a "fundamental contribution to innovation, transparency, better information, more rigorous and better access to procedures for businesses and citizens". He also stressed that information technologies allow progress to be made in reforming the state.
For his part, Familiar said that for the World Bank it is "an honour to accompany Uruguay in something as important as the progress in the provision of e-government services".
"In the country, the World Bank is moving the frontiers of knowledge on key development issues, because you can innovate," said the World Bank representative.
"This is very good news for Cuti, because the objective of this loan contributes to boosting the sector, and it is of the utmost importance that all state organisations incorporate technologies to improve their processes. In addition, many of these incorporations are carried out by Cuti's partners who often, by working together with the state organisations that carry it out, achieve successful projects worldwide, as we have already demonstrated," said Leonardo Loureiro, President of Cuti.
Source: The21 Network
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