UAE: Dubai Municipality implements eCorrespondence service for its clients
Beginning this week Dubai Municipality will accept only those correspondences sent to them electronically by their corporate clients.
USA: Power search
A recent request for information, issued jointly by the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget, asks whether search technology is powerful enough to replace some government standards for information management.
Finnlands biometrische Pässe verzögern sich
Obwohl in Finnland Setec, der Weltführer und erste Hersteller von biometrischen Pässen, beheimatet ist, wird Finnland frühestens im Sommer 2006 die ersten biometrischen Pässe herausgeben. Bis zum 19. September lief noch die Ausschreibung für das System. Im November wird dann entschieden, welche Firma den Zuschlag erhält.
Rheinland-Pfalz: Online-Tool erspart Gang aufs Katasteramt
Ireland: Experts to review government IT projects
The cabinet has agreed to establish a "peer review system" for major public IT projects, which will involve experts from across the public service assessing projects to prevent cost overruns and the development of systems that cannot be used.