The Finance Ministry’s E-Government online portal has developed a mobile monitoring system that will enable the public to track election results on Tuesday from the moment the polls close until tallies are final, the ministry announced on Monday.
Whoever said the United Nations has an anti-Israel bias? This week, the Jewish state was one of three recipients of a “special award” from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Israel shared the honor — in the second of three categories of the 2012 e-Government Survey, “Outstanding Progress among the Top 20” — with Finland and Liechtenstein.
Read more: Israel wins UN prize for ‘outstanding progress’ in e-government
Israel is one of the world's leading nations in the field of online government services, a UN report said. Israel ranked 16 in a recent United Nations survey of e-Government services and "available government" features.
The two-year smart ID card pilot project will get underway within six months. Hundreds of thousands of smart IDs, which will make it possible to receive government services from home, will be issued. The condition for receiving a smart ID card is to provide a finger print and facial photo that will be store in the biometric database that the government is trying to set up.
Read more: IL: Gov't offers smart IDs in return for biometric data