Government starts with E

Published: 27 August 2001 y., Monday
Government is planning to extend its reach even further. Both central and local government are moving away from the real into the virtual and finding even more ways to snuggle up to citizens, keep in touch with them and find out more about them. Tony Blair has long declared the aim of making all government services available electronically by 2005, an ambitious target for an institution more likely to be mired in paper and drowning in red tape than careering carefree down the fast lane of the information superhighway. But the initiatives designed to meet the 2005 deadline are coming thick and fast and soon you might not be able to escape the electronic hand or eye of government. One of the most visible parts of this strategy is the Government Gateway that will eventually be the main site through which people will interact with central government departments. In the early days of the gateway it courted controversy for its insistence on using Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser because it was the only one that supported the types of digital certificates, that can be used as a secure identification system, that it preferred. All local authorities had until 31 July to submit an Implementing Electronic Government statement that would be use to create a national co-ordinated strategy due to be unveiled in the Autumn. Now many local authorities are turning to kiosks and information points in a bid to reach out to those people who do not have access to a PC or a TV that has a web link.
Šaltinis: BBC
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.

Facebook Comments

New comment


Captcha

Associated articles

Open Approach to Digital Marketplaces

New iPlanet Market Maker Platform Allows Rapid Deployment Of Next Generation Open Digital Marketplaces. more »

Final Word

Microsoft Calls Government Breakup Plan ‘Defective’. more »

New technologies to Exhibition business

2nd June 2000 Exhibition&conference management company VISUS PLENUS arranges a press conference “New technologies to Exhibition Business” more »

More Small Businesses Going Online

Two more surveys have found that small business owners are increasingly taking their businesses online and purchasing online, they just aren't using the Web to sell much of anything. more »

search.lt news

search.lt presents newest links more »

"NewLove" warnings spread faster than virus itself

Computer viruses exploiting email have rapidly spread across the globe in the past, but this time the warnings got there first. more »

Cybercops will discuss hack attacks

Computer hackers should beware in Boston tomorrow. more »

Microsoft to reveal Windows strategy

Microsoft will unveil on June 1 its strategy for integrating the future of its Windows operating systems further into the Internet. more »

Microsoft renews attack

Software giant adds to defense with new filing in government antitrust case. more »

The latest product

ONEPAGE: FREE, CUSTOM HOME PAGE BUILDER more »