National architectural documents

Information concept of the Czech Republic

The current version of the Information Concept of the Czech Republic is based on Government Resolution No. 644 of 15 June 2020.

All obliged entities under the Information Systems Act are obliged both to bring their information concepts and their information systems into compliance with the ICCR. The Information Concept of the Czech Republic is a concept of development of information systems of public administration and eGovernment. The concept is prepared by the Ministry of the Interior and approved by the Government. The Concept is developed on the basis of a relatively new provision of Section 5a of Act No. 365/2000 Coll., on public administration information systems and is a basic document containing mainly:

  • Architectural principles of eGovernment and electronicisation of public administration
  • Principles for ICT management in public administration
  • Basic conceptual obligations for building, developing and operating ISVS and their interconnection and for building shared EG services
  • Main and sub-objectives for the effective development of eGovernment and ISVS

The ICCR is described in detail here. The information concept is presented in a different graphical form, otherwise the text for each object is identical to the approved original government document.

Methods of public administration ICT management in the Czech Republic

The Methods of Management of ICT of Public Administration of the Czech Republic (hereinafter referred to as "MŘICT") regulate the framework of rules for central coordinated management of ICT support for eGovernment, management of its legislative changes, building and operating ICT capacities, competences of state enterprises and agencies, management of informatics departments in individual public administration bodies as well as management of the life cycle of individual public administration information systems and other information systems in public administration. The MIRCT elaborate and build on the principles of ICT management set out in the ICCR, of which they are an integral part. The MŘICT are binding for all state authorities and authorities of territorial self-government units using central shared eGovernment services, which are collectively referred to as public administration authorities, i.e. "state authorities or authorities of territorial self-government units", including municipalities and regions, by the provisions of Section 1(1) of Act No. 365/2000 Coll., on public administration information systems and on amendments to certain other acts, as amended (hereinafter referred to as Act No. 365/2000 Coll.).

MIRCTs are described in detail in here.

Glossary of eGovernment terms

The eGovernment glossary contains the most important terms occurring in Czech eGovernment, which are used both in legal regulations and in professional terminology. The Glossary of eGovernment Terms is a follow-up document of the ICCR and the terms contained therein are also used by other follow-up documents of the ICCR.

Details of individual terms are published in here.

National Architectural Framework

The National Architecture Framework (hereafter referred to as "NAR") serves as a methodology for the creation and maintenance of an authority's ICT architecture. It is therefore a methodology that unifies "best practice" from international standards such as TOGAF, adapted to the Czech public administration environment. The NAR is binding for all state authorities and authorities of territorial self-government units using central shared eGovernment services, which are collectively referred to by the term public administration authorities, i.e. to "state authorities or authorities of territorial self-government units", including municipalities and regions.

The NAR is described in detail in here.

National Architectural Plan

The National Architecture Plan (NAP) serves as a navigation for the processing, unification, management and development of architecture both at the central level and in individual offices. The NAP describes the substantive and technological view of the interconnection of public administration systems with central shared eGovernment services and defines what the administrators of information systems should do in their competence and architecture to be in line not only with the current state of Czech eGovernment, but also with its planned state. The NAP is binding for all state authorities and authorities of territorial self-government units using central shared eGovernment services, which are collectively referred to as public administration authorities, i.e. "state authorities or authorities of territorial self-government units", including municipalities and regions, in the provisions of Section 1(1) of Act No. 365/2000 Coll.

The NAP is described in detail in here.

Expanding knowledge base

Any information that is not suitable for inclusion in the above architectural documents, but should be considered, is placed in a separate section of the expanding knowledge base.

More information about the expanding knowledge base is here.