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eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

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The new Irish Government platform www.gov.ie was launched on 30 June 2011 to provide centralised and integrative access to over 300 public services and websites.

The portal provides links to three different types of sevices:

  • Online services: These include Buy a Birth Certificate, Apply for Social Welfare, View 1901 and 1911 Census, Complain to the Ombudsman, Apply to Rural Broadband Scheme and Pay a Court Fine. In order to make it more user-friendly, the listing of services can be limited to those that allow users to apply for, pay for, complain about or just find various services.
  • Government websites: These include Government departments, Revenue, merrionstreet.ie, Iris Oifigiúil, Pensions Board, eTenders and publicjobs.ie.
  • Citizens Information: This Government website provides information on rights, entitlements and benefits, and currently contains over 1300 documents. These cover the domains of: Birth, Family and Relationships, Consumer Affairs, Death and Bereavement, Education and Training, Employment, Environment, Government in Ireland, Health, Housing, Justice, Money and Tax, Moving Country, Social Welfare, and Travel and Recreation.

Read more: IE: Government launches one-stop shop for eGovernment services

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Developing Ireland as a ‘Digital Island’ as a key policy objective, with specific commitments in relation to cloud computing, e-government and the upgrading of ICT across education, healthcare and other sectors, has been confirmed by Minister John Perry, TD.

Perry, who is Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, with special responsibility for Small Business, today highlighted the importance for Ireland Inc of sustaining momentum in relation to the digital agenda.

Read more: IE: ‘Digital Island’ remains key policy objective of Govt - minister

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On 21 June 2011, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform launched a new online Databank of expenditure information, which provides full, open access to a vast range of information about how public money is spent in Ireland.

The Department website already includes general information about all aspects of public expenditure and reform, including an overview of general expenditure trends since 1994.

Read more: IE: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform opens ‘Databank’ of Government information

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Businesses filing with the Companies Registration Office (CRO) this month smashed through the one millionth e-form barrier, Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton said today. He revealed 58pc of documents filed with the CRO are now done online.

He said this form of filing saved businesses €3.9m in administrative costs in 2010.

Just eight years ago over 350,000 multi-paged documents would have arrived annually in paper format and by post at the CRO

Read more: IE: One millionth document filed on CRO website

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Despite making considerable progress in recent years in getting broadband numbers up, Ireland is showing signs of falling behind on broadband speeds and quality.

A new EU study showed that 13.4pc of the share of fixed-line broadband in use in Ireland is equal to or above 10Mbps. The EU average is 38.9pc.

Other data for Ireland shows that 63pc of Irish people regularly use the internet, a little less than the EU average of 65pc.

Read more: Ireland far behind EU average on broadband speeds

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