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From the Kazakhstan News Bulletin released weekly to the United States and Canada: by May 15th the Kazak news portal had been opened for a month providing services for citizens and foreign visitors. There are at least 377 services accessible from www.e.gov.kz with the hope to increase that number to 933 by the end of this year. This website comes as part of Kazakhstan's efforts to provide a more accessible system for citizens to acquire government services while reducing corruption. Later this year licenses will be issued online without any face to face interaction. Askar Zhumagaliev, Chairman of Kazakhstan's Agency on information technology development and communications, said this program "will eliminate any bureaucratic barriers and remove any opportunities for corruption." Zhumagaliev has also been involved in electronic document exchange. By the end of this year we can expect all government bodies to be using this type of exchange coming on the heels of a law legalizing electronic exchange which was recently passed.