Will the websites of government agencies in Tajikistan be active?

Despite the existence of government agency websites, it is impossible to find current and timely information on most of them.

On January 30, the Director of the Agency for State Service under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Jumma Davlatov, stated during a press conference that “in the second half of 2024, the agency plans to monitor the websites of all government agencies.”

Davlatov stated that the websites of all government agencies in the country will be checked, as per the government’s decision, they must always provide current and timely information.

Since 2017, the government has adopted and implemented unified rules for the official websites of ministries and agencies, local executive bodies of state power, and self-governing bodies of towns and villages. All government agencies have been instructed to follow these rules.

The goal of adopting unified rules is to implement the “Concept for the Formation of Electronic Government in the Republic of Tajikistan” and to enforce the Law of the Republic of Tajikistan “On the Right to Access Information.”

However, despite the fact that almost all executive bodies of state power, judicial authorities, and prosecutors in the regions, cities, and districts of Tajikistan have their official websites, most of them are either inactive or have posted only a couple of messages about the visits of Emomali Rahmon or the head of that agency to a particular district for several months.

In particular, the official websites of the judicial authorities are in a critical state.

As of January 30, 2024, during the inspection, it was found that the website of the Supreme Court of Tajikistan was last updated on December 26, 2023. The website of the Dushanbe City Court is currently inactive, and the website of the Shohmansur District Court was last updated on January 25 of this year.

If a reader wants to search for news from the Khatlon region on the official websites of executive bodies of state power, they will find nothing. The official website of the executive body of state power in this region is very difficult to locate online. The official page of the executive body of state power in Khatlon region on Facebook was last updated on June 24, 2021.

Among the official websites of government authorities, the executive body of state power in Sughd region is relatively active. However, the websites of the executive bodies of state power in the districts of this region are either completely inactive or were last updated several months ago.