Using Digitalization to Enhance Public Finance in Kosovo: Republic of Kosovo
Selected Issues Papers, January 17, 2025
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Bibliographic details
- Authors: Carolina Bloch, Mariano Moszoro, Mona Wang, Frank van Brunschot, Yasemin Hurcan
- Published: January 17, 2025
- Series: Selected Issues Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400299735.018
Publication metadata
- Authors: Carolina Bloch, Mariano Moszoro, Mona Wang, Frank van Brunschot, Yasemin Hurcan
- Date: January 17, 2025
- Series: Selected Issues Paper No. 2025/006
- Volume: 2025
- Issue: 006
- Pages: 21
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400299735.018
- Stock No: SIPEA2025006
- ISBN: 9798400299735
- ISSN: 2958-7875
Executive summary and core proposition
- Kosovo has embarked on a journey of digital transformation, developing digital infrastructure to provide access to households, companies, and educational institutions and modernizing its public finance system through GovTech.
- Digitalization and GovTech can facilitate Kosovo leapfrogging into advanced infrastructure and public service delivery.
- While Kosovo has achieved significant milestones—including nearly universal internet coverage and the comprehensive front-end e-Kosova portal—unconnected systems, relatively high consumer prices for digital inclusion, limited digital skills, and cybersecurity risks hinder the full realization of digital benefits.
Key findings and observations
- Milestones achieved:
- Nearly universal internet coverage.
- A comprehensive front-end e-Kosova portal.
- Constraints limiting full benefits of digitalization:
- Unconnected systems across government and services.
- Relatively high consumer prices for digital inclusion.
- Limited digital skills among the population.
- Cybersecurity risks.
Policy directions and implications emphasized in the content
- Continue modernization of public finance systems through GovTech to enhance public service delivery and fiscal governance.
- Address fragmentation by connecting unconnected systems to allow integrated service delivery and information flows.
- Improve affordability of digital access to reduce relatively high consumer prices for digital inclusion.
- Strengthen digital skills across households, companies, and educational institutions to improve uptake and effective use of digital services.
- Mitigate cybersecurity risks to preserve trust in digital public services and protect public finance systems.
Subject coverage and keywords
- Subject areas: Cyber risk, Digitalization, Education, Health, Information and data management, Labor, Population and demographics, Public employment, Technology
- Keywords: Cyber risk, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Digitalization, E-Government, Fiscal governance, GovTech Solutions, Information and data management, Public employment, Public Finance Management, Tax administration core functions
Using Digitalization to Enhance Public Finance in Kosovo: Republic of Kosovo, Selected Issues Papers (2025), by Carolina Bloch et al., January 17, 2025.
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