«Address Register» Information System (AR IS) is an integral part and one of the basic components of the e-Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Major goal: Maintenance of a unified register of real estate addresses on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Task: Providing information systems of government agencies and authorities with information about administrative-territorial units, their parts as well as with information about location of registered real estate objects on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Also, ensuring a single format for real estate objects` address data.

The information system purpose:

• providing complete, reliable and updated address information to the information systems of government agencies;
• maintaining address information up-to-date;
• maintaining the history of address changes;
• accelerating the processes of providing information about real estate addresses to interested parties when they receive public services.

System development milestones:

• 2007: launch of system into commercial operation;
• 2012: modernization of the system through transition to a centralized architecture;
• 2013: commencement of address information provision to the information systems of government agencies and state databases;

System users: Local executive bodies of regional, city and district levels (commissions for onomastics, architecture and urban planning departments), employees of the National Statistics Bureau under the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The AR IS is integrated with 57 information systems of government agencies and other organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan.