President defined strategic directions of ensuring information security in Kazakhstan
The session focused on information security and development of the country's penitentiary system.
Nursultan Nazarbayev noted that development and all-round implementation of information-communication technologies makes a huge contribution and gives positive opportunities for the society and state.
The country actively implements e-services, "e-government" portal, broadband internet, latest generation of communications, digital and satellite television.
Alongside, the country should not exclude that these resources can be used for criminal and other purposes, incompatible with public safety; therefore the state must develop appropriate measures of responding to them.
President's Aide-Secretary of the Security Council Marat Tazhin made a report on regulatory, institutional, scientific, resource and other aspects of ensuring information security in the society and the state.
The meeting participants were also presented the reports of the heads of state bodies on fulfillment of the Presidential instructions concerning this problem.
The participants discussed also the urgent issues of ensuring competitiveness of the domestic information space, implementation of digital and satellite television, reliable functioning of the "e-government" portal and its services to the population, effective protection of information systems and resources.
Besides, the participants gave assessment to the existing state mechanisms of ensuring security in information sector and considered potential risks and threats.
In his speech the Head of State defined the strategic directions of ensuring the country's information security having drawn the participants' attention to the current problems and suggested the ways of their resolution at the national level.
Following the discussion the Government was given a number of instructions, namely to inspect the state of information security mechanisms, to ensure stable functioning of the state and corporate information systems and to analyze the practice of struggle against cybercrimes.
Taking into account high research intensity of the information sector, the state bodies were tasked to develop scientific-research activity and train personnel in information security.
While discussing the development of Kazakhstan's correctional system, the President pointed out several achievements in this sphere.
Thus, humanization of the laws allowed reducing the number of persons sentenced to imprisonment. As is known, Kazakhstan plans to announce amnesty dedicated to the 20th anniversary of its independence.
Along with this, over a long period the number of prisoners in Kazakhstan has remained high, whereas the penitentiary system has not undergone serious reforming yet. In this view the state must develop appropriate response measures.
Minister of Justice Rashid Tussupbekov presented a report on the main directions of development of the country's penitentiary system.
Issues regarding reduction of "prison population", improvement of conditions for serving punishment, ensuring the rights of prisoners and their employment, medical care and modernization of the system of security in prisons were discussed.
According to the President, the major directions of further development of the penitentiary system must be use of alternatives to imprisonment, minimizing the number of conditions of serving sentence and bringing the prisons into compliance with the world recognized standards.
Following the meeting the Government was entrusted with several tasks on further humanization of the criminal legislation, establishment of a probation agency, changing the modes of keeping in penitentiary facilities as well as on financing the activities aimed at improvement of the conditions of serving the sentence.
The Secretariat of the Security Council was charged to take the fulfillment of the abovementioned instructions under control.