Information and Communication Technology

Information and Communication Technology

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ICT
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COLL06
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Documentation and workflow platform

This good practice comprises a workflow platform which automates a series of actions, activities and tasks performed by users when executing certain established processes. This allows work on the implementation and improvement of routine processes to be coordinated and organized. The platform integrates workflows, the requisite documentation, and internal and external services throughout the organization and allows processes to feed into one another which otherwise would be carried out in isolation. 

Single portal for monotax contributors (monotributistas)

Single tax is an option designed for self-employed workers to pay contributions and taxes in a simplified way. Social security (retirement and health) and tax (VAT and income tax) contributions are collected together as a fixed monthly fee. To join the scheme, one has to comply with billing parameters including business surface area, electricity consumed and rental.

There are 3,373,712 single-tax contributors registered in Argentina.

Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement automatic enrolment

The Old Age Security (OAS) program is the Government of Canada’s largest pension program. It is funded out of the Government’s general tax revenues, which means that beneficiaries do not pay into it directly. This program provides eligible seniors with basic income in retirement through the OAS Pension and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS).

Biometrics – My fingerprint

The National Social Security Administration (Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social – ANSES) Biometric System (ABS) is responsible for validating the identity of individuals, simplifying and optimizing processes related to payment and life certificates for SIPA and non-contributory pensions beneficiaries and/or their proxies through a dynamic, secure, effective, reliable and simple technological system using biometric tools allowing fingerprints to be captured in digital form.

The system is implemented with the following functions:

Technical Cooperation Project “Modernization of Social Security of Mozambique" – Brazil and Mozambique

A project of Technical Cooperation between Developing Countries (Brazil and Mozambique) entitled "Modernization of Social Security of Mozambique", signed on December 3, 2010. Organizations involved:

Brazil:

  • Secretariat of Social Security;
  • National Institute of Social Security (INSS);
  • Social Security Information and Technology Company (DATAPREV);
  • Brazilian Agency for International Cooperation (ABC).

Mozambique:

Introduction of a third-party reimbursement system

In recent years, the National Sickness Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie – CNAM) has been working to design and implement new procedures with the aim of continuously improving its benefits in order to better meet the expectations of insured persons by significantly reducing, for instance, the reimbursement period for ambulatory care expenses – a key quality objective for the CNAM.

In order to achieve this objective, the CNAM has set up a system which operates mainly at the following four levels: