The NIK has taken over the leadership of the EUROSAI Subgroup for the e-Government that operates within the EUROSAI Working Group on IT Audit, and presented its European partners with an original tool for managing the knowledge gathered by Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs). In the works of the Subgroup, representatives of the SAIs of the Netherlands, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia and Switzerland are engaged. At a meeting held last October in Warsaw, representatives of the NIK discussed the principles of the system and its architecture.
The problems with IT auditing are to a large extent universal. Auditors who examine new phenomena (such as, e.g., cloud computing and transborder use of electronic signature) can benefit from experience of their colleagues from other countries who have already audited these issues. The tool that the NIK has to offer is still a prototype, but its effects can be already observed: in the e-PUAP audit, the scheme of the e-Government audit (a result of collaboration of several SAIs) was applied successfully, and later made available to partners all over the world.
The representatives of European SAIs working on the development of the e-GOV platform are all of the opinion that cooperation and involvement of all participants are the key to the success of the project. The EUROSAI Working Group on IT Audit, chaired by the SAI of Switzerland, has asked individual SAIs to sent reports and data, indicating the NIK website which hosts the e-GOV platform.
The project is implemented within EUROSAI - the European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institution, but the NIK emphasises that it is ready to cooperate with all audit and control institutions worldwide. The tool that is being created will be available to all those who wish to access results of IT audits in an effective way.
