President participates in “The Next State” roundtable

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The President of Mongolia Ts.Elbegdorj took part in a roundtable meeting titled “The Next State” ran Friday within the 44th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Apart of our President, the roundtable meeting brought together representatives of other countries, world famous professors and scholars from research and technological centers to discuss tendency of state in modern time and its features. Main topic of the roundtable was a way of designing a future political system with the latest technology or model. The participants agreed that blueprint of future state will be determined by creating a new state system which is based on IT, innovation and researches more than based on previous industrial tendency, and by collaborating with the private sector. Mentioning about a forum called “From big state to smart state” ran last year in Mongolia, the President emphasized that it is time for his country to abolish cumbersome system of state in order to make it smart and compact. “In order to do this, we have launched some reforming works,” Mr Elbegdorj said. For example, the number of licenses issued by state was declined by 40%, and issuing of 30% of total licenses will be transmitted into the private sector. Any permission and licenses will be created only through parliament. Mongolia is working to stop state-run business activities, and it halts the state to intervene business environment of the private sector, the President said. Moreover, the country is introducing the law on transparent so-called “glass” account. By this law, a state servant must report online his/her expenditure of money from taxpayers in 72 hours, he added. Saying that Mongolia could reduce its corruption index last two years by 36 places, the President emphasized Mongolia will keep and increase this achievement, and it will be criteria for the ‘smart’ state of the country. “We will be becoming a nation in twenty years from now to share our experience on smart state. Tendency of Mongolian next state will be based on researches, and will have service-oriented legal governance,” the President stressed.