On March 1 there was meeting of the business associations with the representatives of the Open Government Partnership initiative in the office of the Business Development and Investments Council under the GKR. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.
During the meeting participants have agreed to more proactively involve business community of the KR into the OGP initiative. Issues raised at the meetings of the Investment Council such as improvement of the inspections procedures, optimization of license permission system, automatization of state services, introduction of “single window” principles and many others are respond to the main principles of the OGP initiative. In this regards, Investment Council is ready to take coordinating role within the OGP in order to represent interests of the business community.