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Online Porn Abuse Rife In Public Sector
News The report said: "Public services hold much personal information about citizens and the risk of criminal attention being focused upon these personal data stores is becoming acute. If we fail to get this right we risk eroding the confidence of...
[June 10, 2005, 10:10]
E-government: Delivering Public Services
White Papers Getting Government services online is an integral part of this. Progress is already being made with 42% of services already available. As this vision becomes a reality Government and the citizen will reap the benefits through improved services to...
[May 3, 2005, 0:00]
Public-sector Workers May Barter Labour Online
News Downing Street policy advisers are working on plans for an online market place that would allow public sector workers to sell their labour and skills to local authorities and government departments. It would cover a range of goods and services, but...
[August 24, 2004, 15:45]
EU To Launch Europe-wide Public Services Portal
News The EU has issued revised plans for the development of an online public services portal. All EU national administration Web sites are structured in their own unique way, providing different levels of information on their public services, according...
[June 10, 2004, 12:55]
Web Services Spec Made Public
News The UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) specification serves as a registry and locator service that identifies and catalogues Web services applications so that they can be easily found online.
[August 22, 2003, 11:35]
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]
British E-government Hailed By UN
Talkback It is surely far better in the longer term if the appropriate public department develop and deliver their own online services rather than try and do it cheap and get a contracted company to do it for them!
[January 12, 2005, 15:10]
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]
Web Business Directory Put To The Test
News Four major software makers will launch an updated test version of a public Web services directory that lets businesses list and find online services. The directory is an online Yellow Pages that will help companies advertise their Web services and...
[November 19, 2001, 15:16]
Work Still Needed On E-government
News Generally, people want to access more services online yet the majority also say they always prefer to speak to someone face-to-face. Overall, there is less enthusiasm for using online services than face to face contact, the report says.
[July 11, 2005, 17:15]
NTT Joins Web Services Directory Effort
News Japanese telecommunications giant NTT this week became the first company that doesn't make software to join an effort to build a public Web services directory that lets businesses list and find online services.
[January 21, 2002, 10:14]
Public Should Benefit From E-government Savings
News The government is committed to offering all its services online by 2005 but Sir John Bourn, head of the NAO, has warned MPs that take-up could be low if many members of the public cannot see any advantage in accessing them electronically.
[April 5, 2002, 11:57]
UK's E-government Schemes 'lack Depth'
News The UK has slipped down a rung in e-government league tables compiled by Accenture, which blames the slide on the lack of depth in the public services currently online. The consultancy firm said customer service, not putting more services online...
[April 6, 2005, 17:25]
Texas Online Barriers To E-government
White Papers The TexasOnline portal is envisioned to be the single point of access to government information services online; it is to be an extension of the "brick and mortar government," making government services more available to Texans.
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Novell: We Are All 'Amazon' Citizens
News Speaking today at the company's annual BrainShare user conference in Barcelona, Novell's chief executive Jack Messman said that the public has become used to extremely sophisticated online services from e-commerce companies -- and now expects...
[September 13, 2004, 16:00]
Businesses Reap Rewards Of E-government
News The measurement criteria cover the level of online interaction and the overall availability of public services online. For the 20 public services analysed across the 15 EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland and Switzerland, the online...
[February 7, 2003, 13:52]
E-Government 'undemocratic' Says LSE
News By putting public services online, the government should be able to cut the number of people employed to deal with the public face-to-face. The company maintained that governments will be able to provide "five-star" citizenship services, such as...
[April 11, 2006, 16:40]
E-government Services Could Cost 800,000 Jobs
News The e-envoy, Andrew Pinder, has said that 800,000 public sector workers -- or up to one in five civil servants -- could be made redundant over the next 10 years because of the effect of putting government services online.
[May 13, 2002, 16:35]
Electronic Signatures Struggling In Europe
News The Commission is concerned that low take up of e-signatures across Europe is slowing down trade in goods and services online. It is hoped that ID card programmes could encourage the use of e-signatures as in many cases they could serve to...
[March 20, 2006, 15:10]
Scandinavian Countries Take E-government Lead
News Denmark was best prepared for e-government both in the ability of the government to deliver services online and in the public's willingness to use them. Few European countries will be able to meet the region-wide goal of getting all government...
[December 17, 2003, 16:45]
