{"id":15948,"date":"2021-06-09T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/?p=15948"},"modified":"2025-08-11T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:00:00","slug":"guatemalas-anti-bureaucracy-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/guatemalas-anti-bureaucracy-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala&#8217;s Anti-Bureaucracy Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the modern post-pandemic world, the use of technology to simplify human interactions has become a truism.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this sense, derived from a reaction to a growing social and business demand, on May 5, 2021, the legislative body enacted Decree 5-2021, the Anti-Bureaucracy Law, which aims to modernize administrative management, using information and communication technologies to facilitate user management, providing access to online consultations and 100% digital payment platforms.\u00a0Therefore, the law orders public institutions to allocate part of their budgets for the automation of processes within a period not exceeding 6 months, using as a pillar of the modernization project of the executive agency, the advanced electronic signature, and electronic communications, both embodied in Decree 47-2008 and whose boom has increased especially in recent years.<\/div>\nThe plan to modernize and automatize administrative procedures aims to provide the following benefits in a timely manner:\n<ul>\n \t<li>Right to be informed of the status of the procedure.<\/li>\n \t<li>Eliminate unnecessary procedures or supporting documents.<\/li>\n \t<li>Prohibit the user from being asked for documents or procedures that the same administrative entity grants (understanding that the institution must coordinate it internally).<\/li>\n \t<li>Support the electronic signature recognized by decree 47-2008 and regulations.<\/li>\n \t<li>Promote the use of electronic payment platforms.<\/li>\n \t<li>Promote the modernization of government institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15396 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/luz-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/luz-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/luz-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/luz-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/luz-1135x1536.jpg 1135w, https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/luz.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/profiles\/andres-cofino-guzman\/\">Andr\u00e9s Cofi\u00f1o Guzm\u00e1n\u00a0<\/a>\nGarc\u00eda &amp; Bod\u00e1n\nGuatemala\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the modern post-pandemic world, the use of technology to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40304,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948\/revisions\/40304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}