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LUSHNJE, 18 March 2013 – The Centre for Public Information Issues, INFOÇIP and Lushnja Municipality jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the frame of the full digitalization of Municipal Council decisions from 2007 to date. The ceremony was held in the premises of Lushnja municipality and was covered by the national and local media representatives present in Lushnja. The signatories of this memorandum were represented by the Mayor of Lushnja, Fatos Tushe, Chairman of the Municipal Council of Lushnja, Asllan Haxhiu and on behalf of INFOÇIP, by the Executive Director, Gerti Shella. The ceremony was also attended by both deputy mayors of the Lushnja Municipality.
The purpose of this Memorandum was to promote the cooperation and establish partnership between the parties to generate full 
and effective access to the local legislation of Lushnja by the interested stakeholders and citizens through new information technologies, in the framework of the National Initiative “Open Local Governance through Innovation”.
The interaction between the partners, signatories of the MoU, shall be realized in the framework of the Second Phase of the pilot program titled: “Providing Albanian Citizens with full on-line access to their municipal council decisions”, funded by the US Embassy in Tirana.
According to this Mou,the Centre for Public Information Issues, INFOÇIP, assumes to fully digitalize Lushnja municipal council decisions from 2007 to date and further upload them online in the National Archive of the Albanian Municipal Council Decisions (www.vendime.al) and the official website of Lushnja Municipality through linking.
INFOÇIP assumes to make accessible online by keywords all decisions it has digitalized, which will be downloadable free of charge and at any time for/from all concerned parties.
By the end of the process, the online archive of Lushnja Municipal Council decisions will be donated in a public ceremony, in the presence of all local stakeholders, donors and media.
Further, INFOÇIP is responsible to provide technical capacities and full training the responsible personnel at Lushnja Municipality for the publication/independent online records of the new decisions to be taken by the Municipal Council of Lushnja for the time being, after database donation by INFOÇIP.
Lushnja Municipality assumes to ensure the access of INFOÇIP operators to the database of Municipal Council decisions from 2007 to date, through scanning of all relevant documents, which also represents the first phase of digitalization.
Lushnja Municipality assumes to link to the home page of its official website, the archive of Lushnja Municipal Council decisions, after being delivered and supplemented by INFOÇIP.
Lushnja Municipality is responsible to safeguard the continuity and coherence of the publication of its decisions in www.vendime.al, independently uploading the new Council decisions through the Municipal Council secretary and/or the Municipality IT personnel, thus ensuring the online recognition of council decisions by the concerned parties.
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