International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Work in the public sector reflects democratic, economic, and social values as a whole. All institutions share the responsibility to deliver better value for citizens and businesses, thereby ensuring appropriate and meaningful sustainable economic and social development – i.e., prosperity for the Republic of N. Macedonia overall. For these reasons, this paper aims to define, establish, and highlight the importance of the public sector’s economic and social dimension, and to examine how, in both of its forms, that dimension affects motivation and job satisfaction among public-sector employees in the Republic of N. Macedonia.

The aim of the paper is to analyze the degree of practicing transparency and accountability through the index of active transparency by the units of local self-government (municipalities) from the South-west planning region in the Republic of N. Macedonia, with the possibility of free access to public information, the deadline within which the units responded to the request, accountability, integrity, budgetary and financial transparency, as well as the information on the competence and services offered by the units themselves.

The development of telecommunications and computer science has created a favorable climate regarding the increased development of electronic communication and has also led to an increase in the number of electronic documents that are being generated, stored or transmitted via computer networks. These documents are valuable but prone to manipulation by unauthorized persons that consequently leads to a need for enforced protection of the information contained in those documents from unauthorized third parties.
Digital signatures provide required validation and verification of electronic documents and represent a series of units and zeros obtained from a particular digital signature algorithm. The article emphasizes the practical application of digital signatures in the electronic system for public procurement by introducing the manner of the electronic signing of documents depending on the application software used by users in the Republic of N. Macedonia.