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  • Ireland: All State services to be available on one number

    A single telephone number for all public services is planned by the Government -- similar to a system in New York.

    New York's 311 service is the phone number for all the US government's information and non- emergency services.

    Taoiseach Brian Cowen visited the headquarters of the service in the New York Mayor's office earlier this year on a visit to the city and said he was impressed by the set-up.

  • Ireland: Asking what people want is the way to bridge the digital divid

    For e-government to succeed in Ireland, it must begin with social inclusion.

    All eyes will be on the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD this week as he formulates an early Budget geared at keeping the economic wolves from Ireland’s door. Top of his list, no doubt, is chronic spending and inefficiencies in the public sector, particularly in health, but also in technology.

  • Ireland: Backroom evolution

    The first wave of hype around the first public sector web sites has long since subsided and the impact of PPARS is still being felt, so it’s no surprise that talk about e-government is more measured than it used to be.

    “Some of the bigger projects haven’t materialised in quite the way they should have. Reach hasn’t achieved its goal during its stated period of development and we haven’t seen great progress with the HSE [Health Service Executive] with regards to IT,” said Curt Adler, head of public sector at HP. “They haven’t exploited the potential that is there within technology to improve our healthcare services.”

  • Ireland: BearingPoint set for e-gov rollout

    Details of who will build and manage Ireland's core e-government system, the Public Services Broker, have been released, with BearingPoint winning the lion's share of the contract.

    The selection of BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) was widely expected after Reach, the government agency responsible for the new system, named BearingPoint its preferred supplier late last year. The announcement also included a full list of companies involved in the important contract: Esat BT, for infrastructure management outsourcing, as well as BEA, Netegrity, Oracle and Sun Microsystems for technology.

  • Ireland: BearingPoint set to win major e-gov deal

    Multinational consultancy firm BearingPoint looks likely to win the contract to develop the Public Services Broker (PSB).

  • Ireland: BearingPoint wins Irish passport deal

    US consulting firm BearingPoint has confirmed that it will be the company changed with modernising Ireland's passport system.

  • Ireland: BIC Systems completes pilot project for NI Dept of Agriculture

    Belfast company BIC Systems has completed a pilot project to simulate the provision of secure online services to a sample of the farming community in Northern Ireland for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. (DARD).

  • Ireland: Biometric passport plan abandoned: report

    Rules requiring Irish citizens to carry high-tech passports when visiting the US are to be dropped because the technology behind the scheme is seen as unreliable.

    The US Department of Homeland Security had previously set an October 2005 deadline for the inclusion of biometric information chips in the passports of European citizens who avail of the Visa Waiver programme. This programme allows people to make short-term visits to the US without a visa. The chips would have included a variety of biological information about the passport holder, such as their fingerprints and retina scans.

  • Ireland: Body to seek efficiencies in public sector

    A high-level committee to seek efficiencies in the public sector is to be established once the government considers the findings of a special taskforce report on public sector reform.

    The report, compiled by a committee chaired by Dermot McCarthy, the secretary general of the Department of the Taoiseach, is expected to be considered by the cabinet in the next ten days. It is also expected to recommend a major expansion in the e-government programme to allow services to be delivered to the public in amore cost-effective way.

  • Ireland: Bord Gais crowned e-government champion

    Bord Gais and Cork City Council were the two big winners at the 2008 Irish eGovernment awards, which were held on Thursday night.

    At a ceremony in Dublin's Four Seasons Hotel, Bord Gais picked up two awards as it claimed the title of overall winner and the award for Best Commercial State Body for its website bordgaisenergysupply.ie. The website, which allows users to pay their bills online and submit meter readings online, was described by the judges as being in most cases "superior to almost any other transactional website. It is intuitive, fully functional and of great benefit to both the organisation and to its customers. It is a credit to those who led the project."

  • Ireland: Bridging the digital divide no easy task

    The prospect of a deepening digital divide isn't just a preoccupation in Ireland.

    A broadband taskforce established in California last year by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger voiced similar concerns recently for the state that was the breeding ground for internet giants such as Google and Ebay.

    While 95pc of residents in Los Angeles can subscribe to speeds of 10Mbps or higher, some rural areas are being left behind, said the taskforce.

  • Ireland: Broadband: Some rural areas will lose out

    An Eircom executive has said that people in rural Ireland who live more than 5km from a telephone exchange will never get broadband.

    Eircom spokesman Paul Bradley told the Oireachtas Communications Committee that even when the local exchange is upgraded to handle broadband, after 5km the signal becomes so weak that a modem will not connect. He said it was a limitation of the technology.

  • Ireland: Broker to go live

    The Government is to unveil the first phase of the Public Services Broker (PSB) system, the lynchpin of the its e-government strategy, representing the end of the design and development phase and the culmination of more than seven year’s work.

    Described as “imminent” the unveiling of the first phase of the PSB — which was developed and will be managed by the Reach agency – will include a set of capabilities aimed at improving services to citizens and to achieve administrative efficiencies within the public sector. The deployment includes a portal website that will act as a comprehensive single access point for public services at www.reachservices.ie for citizens.

  • Ireland: Budget must include ICT in its plans

    Information and Communications Technology (ICT), or the high-tech sector, is critical to the Irish economy. The sector comprises 1,300 companies across many diverse industries, ranging from leading IT multinationals to indigenous start-ups to telecoms companies.

    More than 90,000 people are employed in the ICT sector in Ireland, which accounts for 36 per cent of total exports of goods and services. Productivity in the sector is high. Between 1995 and 2003, productivity increased by 165 per cent or 13 per cent in annual average terms. This compares with 14 per cent and 1.6 per cent respectively for other industry sectors.

  • Ireland: Campaign for rural broadband launched

    The failure to deliver broadband to many rural areas of the country has had major social and economic costs, a conference was told today.

    Irish Rural Link said it was launching a national campaign to pressure the Government into improving the service in rural areas.

    Chief Executive Seamus Boland told the meeting in Charleville, Co Cork that urgent action was required and expressed concern that the Government’s National Broadband Scheme (NDBS) may not be adequate.

  • Ireland: Central e-government market worth €27m

    Critical gaps in IT skills in the rollout of e-government initiatives will result in managed services becoming a central feature of these projects, creating a market worth €27m in 2006, a new report by iReach claims.

    The deployment of mission-critical e-government to e-citizen projects over the past number of years will present a number of key issues for government IT decision makers to consider over the next 12-18 months, according to the report.

  • Ireland: Chambers call on Govt to speed reform

    The Chambers of Commerce of Ireland (CCI) today called on the Government to speed up reforms in the EU to stimulate growth.

    Speaking from the Eurochambres Congress 2004 in Vienna today CCI President Mark Staunton said, the EU is continuing to lose competitiveness compared to the leading economies of the world.

  • Ireland: Chatroom voters have greater say on Dáil committees

    Voters will soon be able to discuss proposed legislation with Dáil committees via online Government chatrooms as part of sweeping reforms to give the electorate betterinput into parliamentary business.

    The proposed discussion forums will be piloted in early 2006 to allow interest groups to discuss the Broadcasting Bill with the all-party Oireachtas Communications Committee.

  • Ireland: Child benefit payment faster and now more efficient as rates increased

    The waiting time for the payment of Child Benefit is being dramatically reduced from months to hours in a major redesign and modernisation of the social welfare payment system, Mary Coughlan TD, Minister for Social and Family Affairs said today.

  • Ireland: Closer look at E-government

    ONLY five of the 26 councils in Northern Ireland are geared up to enable customers to make online payments, it was disclosed today.

    The finding emerged in a survey carried out by the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA). The details were given at a conference at Craigavon Civic Centre on e-government, the initiative designed to use technology to improve the delivery of public services.

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