The eGovernment Department
The eGovernment Department was established on 1 February 2004 to initiate and manage transition into eGovernment within the refugee, immigration and integration field.
Deputy Permanent Secretary: Jannie Hilsbo
Tel: 33 92 36 80. Mobile: 20 62 54 75
E-mail: jhi@inm.dk
Head of Division: Anders Carlsen
Tel: 22 96 25 60
E-mail: aca@inm.dk
Head of IT-operations: Michael Høimark Terpe
Tel.: 41 10 25 20
E-mail: mht@inm.dk
The department consists of:
The IT Development Unit contributes project management to strategic development projects within the Ministry’s digitalisation programme and consultant support to other large IT development projects, for example a project launch to help implement new legislation.
Some of the tasks the IT Development Unit has been involved with are:
Establishment of an electronic service for handling visa cases (FVS) shared amongst all relevant parties (representatives from the Foreign Ministry, the Danish immigration service, the Immigration Department and to a certain extent the Police).
Development of a Foreigner Information Portal for the secure support of a structured exchange of information on foreigners between authorities (Integration Ministry, local authorities across the country, Customs & Excise, all state counties and their prefects, police districts, etc.).
Establishment of a Work System, which gives applicants from the new EU countries the chance to fill out an application form digitally. Employers can submit their information digitally using a digital signature and the EU-system facilitates digital consultations with the regional labour market committees (RAR).
The IT Management unit handles all development and administration of the IT functions of the Integration Ministry and the Danish Immigration Service.
Some of the tasks the IT Unit are responsible for are: