Naci Koru, one of the ministry’s five deputy undersecretaries, told Today’s Zaman that they are saving huge amounts of time as well as paper with the new system. “It is a highly developed system. All of our official correspondence is now signed, and all incoming and outgoing documents are archived electronically.
We have not undertaken a study on how much paper we are saving with this new system yet, but we are now processing our paperwork and finding archived documents more rapidly,’’ he said.
The ministry started to use the new system at the representative office level one month ago, and it has recently been adopted by the ministry’s headquarters in Ankara. Because the ministry’s staff was trained in advance, the transfer to the new system was swift. Currently, all departments can see the correspondence relevant to their area of work, but because of security reasons, staff cannot log into the system through servers other than those used at the ministry or its representative offices abroad.
