Good practice:

The e-Podlaskie Program

The e-Podlaskie Program consists of priorityaxes: e-administration, e-business, e-health, e-education, and ICT networks. In response of objectives identified in the e-Podlaskie Program, the Marshall’s Office prepared 3 regional projects:
1. “Implementation of Electronic Public Services in Local Administration” -The Main part of the project is WrotaPodlasia (Gate to Podlaskie) Information Portal which includes several hundred websites and many detailed services. Most important ones are: WrotaPodlasia Digital Office (thanks to its integration with the Electronic Documents Flow it allows handling administrative cases through electronic channels in the entire voivodeship, between customers and administration as well as between administrative units themselves) and WrotaPodlasia-Podlaskie Education Platform (regional platform providing educational content and access to electronic school records).
2. “Podlaskie e-Health Information System”
(Makes it possible to get information, to go a doctor appointment electronicallyin over 200 specialised clinics in 30 hospitals throughout the region and also provides access to electronic medical records.)
3. ”Broadband Network of Eastern Poland – Podlaskie Region”
(It is the first step towards meeting the requirements of Digital Agenda in scope of new generation Internet access.)
- Beneficiaries are all inhabitants of the Podlaskie Voivodeship (Podlaskie Region).

This project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund and the state budget was implemented by the Marshal's Office of the Podlasie Voivodship in partnership with the University of Bialystok. Project budget 1.799.998 PLN (402 207,00 EUR).

Implementation of programme, covered 130 partners and over 1,200 entities together. Partners in the project included: 3 largest cities in the region, 14 powiats (districts), 112 municipalities and over 1000 organisational units of those Partners.
Podlaskie e-Health Information System results: 220 specialist clinics in 30 medicinal entities connected to the Platform and 25000 users
Broadband Network of Eastern Poland – Podlaskie Region - total length of the network:1885.23 km

Challenges concerned 3 regional projects carried out in response of objectives identified in the e-Podlaskie Program-they concerned mainly logistical, technical and organizational challenges and resulted from scale of projects, a large number of partnerslike local governments and hospitals.

The e-Podlaskie Program was created thanks to the cooperation of many experts in the fields of science, business, administration and presents an analysis of the state of the Information Society of the Podlaskie Voivodship and recommendations for further actions in individual areas. Thereby, this document has become a reference point for operational programs, sectoral strategies, long-term plans defining the directions of actions and other political and program documents at the regional level. Therefore, the e-Podlaskie Program may be potentially interesting example for those regions that require defining uniform needs and setting further steps on the road to digital development of their regions.