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Jordan Government Offers Citizens Online Transactional Tax Services
White Papers Jordan is now a pioneer in the Middle East region for online, highly secure transactional tax services. With the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Estarta Solutions, they used the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
Government to launch online emergency service
News The intranet will be available to emergency services and government departments for coordinating local and national responses to terrorist attacks and other major disasters. According to a report in E-Government Bulletin, the system combines two...
[January 10, 2002, 13:54]
Government considering online crime reports
News The NHS kickstarted the trend of putting public services online by installing Internet kiosks around the UK last October. Clarke explained: "While many [police] forces are already introducing services via their own Web sites, I believe that the...
[January 12, 2001, 7:41]
Solution Provider Helps Local Government Cut IT Costs, Expand Customer Services
White Papers The results: one-third savings in development costs, a tripling of the talent pool for content authoring, administrative savings of 2.5 percent yearly, and a foundation for expanding online transactional services.
[March 25, 2008, 0:01]
Government promotes e-payment for council services
News Local e-government minister Phil Hope said he is convinced of the potential of e-Pay to improve services and deliver cost savings.e-Pay fits well into local government, and if it is rolled out effectively in local authorities it could save £708m...
[November 17, 2004, 13:05]
Government smashes own online targets
News McCartney highlighted some of the recent Web initiatives from government including the UK online citizens' portal which went live after initial teething problems in December, and a site which allows people to inform government departments about a...
[January 17, 2001, 10:43]
Siebel and BT target e-government services
News Tom Siebel, the chief executive of the eponymous software firm, talked up the opportunities in e-government on Thursday at the launch of a raft of new customer relationship management (CRM) services from its business partner BT.
[November 14, 2002, 16:48]
UK enters government services top 10
News Satisfaction in government service outranks that of private-sector businesses — especially utilities and online retailers — as well as banks, mobile-phone operators and airlines. The UK has moved up three places in an annual league table of...
[June 18, 2007, 15:43]
Portal aims to revolutionise government services
News The Web site is a key part of the government's £1bn drive to get all services online by 2005. The emphasis now is on simple, clear information which the government says will revolutionise the way public services are delivered.
[February 20, 2001, 10:05]
UK citizens shun e-government services
Talkback This is also in the best interest of the government because it increases the effective life span of each implementation of the service. The UK did some really great things online in the mid-1990's before the fan base of Bill Gates got in the way.
[April 6, 2005, 10:18]
UKonline goes offline
News The pilot version of the UKonline portal has only been live since Monday and is an important part of the government's initiative to get all services online by 2005. Government portal UKonline.gov.uk experienced an outage Wednesday morning raising...
[December 6, 2000, 14:20]
E-government: Must try harder
News The British government is still failing to take full advantage of the Internet by providing citizens with useful and innovative online services, according to an influential group of MPs. If e-government is to succeed, the committee warned in a new...
[August 28, 2002, 13:33]
EU unveils digital citizen action plan
News The EU has unveiled its e-government action plan, calling for all 25 member states to embrace greater use of online services that will ensure "no citizen is left behind". In addition, the action plan calls for inhabitants of the EU to be able to...
[April 27, 2006, 16:05]
E-government needs tech-literate generation
News Public take-up of local government online services will remain low for at least the next 10 years, according to a new report. The government itself admitted last November that public usage of the services currently available online is low, and aims...
[January 17, 2003, 14:01]
Ignorance hampers e-government drive
News The government is ignorant about the costs and benefits of putting public services online, and is not doing enough to learn from the experiences of people who are using existing government Web sites, according to an official report released on...
[April 25, 2002, 12:23]
E-government targets branded 'inadequate'
News Targets for getting all government services online by 2005 may not be going far enough, critics have said at the government's e-Summit. Fifty-four percent of government services are already online," said Blair, "but we recognise that British...
[November 19, 2002, 15:45]
Novell: We are all 'Amazon' citizens
News The popularity of private sector e-commerce has raised citizens' expectations around the provision of government services online, according to Novell. Speaking today at the company's annual BrainShare user conference in Barcelona, Novell's chief...
[September 13, 2004, 16:00]
Scandinavian countries take e-government lead
News Few European countries will be able to meet the region-wide goal of getting all government services online by 2005, according to a study by IDC released this week, which projected that e-government spending will nearly double in the next five years.
[December 17, 2003, 16:45]
E-envoy disputes 800,000 job-loss quote
News The e-envoy, Andrew Pinder, has said that comments he made about job losses from putting government services online were taken out of context. Gartner research director John Mahoney told delegates at the Society of IT Managers' Spring Seminar in...
[May 15, 2002, 17:06]
MPs diss government's online plans
News A report published Thursday reveals scant belief among MPs in the government's ability to put all its services online by 2005. The report, commissioned for the World Internet Forum in November and performed by Mori, found only 61 percent of 101 MPs...
[September 21, 2000, 16:20]
