The European Commission has positively assessed the Austrian e-Government in the eGovernment Benchmark 2016, especially in the field of key technologies such as electronic identification (mobile phone signature) or electronic documents, reports the agency APA.
Austria belongs to the top-performing EU countries in e-Government, together with Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Austria was evaluated best in the category, such as user friendliness, cross-border availability and transparency of offered services. To compare, Malta was the only country to offer all public services online. In the online availability of public services, Austria and Portugal followed with 98 percent availability.