The study, compiled by the analyst firm iReach on behalf of O2, claims that mobile services represent an opportunity for greater application of e-government than traditional computer-based technologies.
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By visiting Landdirect.ie, professional users such as banks, solicitors, estate agents, local authorities and government departments will be able to pick out virtually any town or village in the land, visualise a particular property-holding online and then click on it to find out who actually owns it. Currently about 85pc of property in the public is registered and this will show up on the system.
Researchers from UCD Smurfit School of Business have been awarded €450,000 to study how e-government practices and systems can improve the way tax and customs information is exchanged between business and public administrations.
The study, "Mobile Communications in the Irish Public Sector", was carried out by iReach on behalf of the mobile operator O2 Ireland.
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PAYE workers will be able to register for the service through the Government’s Reach eCitizen initiative in the second half of this year, siliconrepublic.com has learned. To register, citizens will need their PPS number and will be issued with a PAYE PIN.
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