PHILIPSBURG (DCOMM):--- On Friday, the Ministry of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Traffic & Telecommunication (TEZVT), went through the process of a live demonstration with the stakeholders—notaries, chamber of commerce, and related departments—in regards to the Business license online application.
"This is a live practice exercise on the functionality of the system, testing all aspects of the functioning of the system. Not the aesthetics of the program for now," Miguel de Weever said, Secretary General, a.i., of the Ministry of TEZVT.
This system will, for now, deal with only new businesses license requests, not existing business licenses and not amendments to those old business licenses.
The persons involved from different organizations (notaries, chamber of commerce, and related departments dealing with business licenses from the various entities) went through the process of a simulated registration. From this experience, the technical issues will be worked out and eliminated.
This exercise was later in the day duplicated from the stakeholders' offices.
Upon completion of the exercise of registering businesses today; there will be a soft launch next week, registering of only new business licenses. So starting next week, the notaries can begin using the online registration of business licenses system.
After this period, and within six months, there will be a hard (official) launch of the business licenses online registration. In addition to adding additional elements i.e. amendments to business licenses, applying for taxi licenses, and other such matters. Registration can also take place locally and internationally.
The benefits of such a system is that the process goes faster and more efficient; the work flow will be electronic; all transactions will be recorded (there will be a tracking method to determine the location and/or process of the document); clients will be updated regularly and notified when action is needed, i.e. processing fee; crib number will be generated; the minister will be able to approve licenses electronically as well.
