Northern Ireland's e-Government Unit has provided a new transactional platform for authorities in the province.
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.
A new television advertising campaign was launched this week to raise awareness of a one-stop website accessing government and public services.
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By using the solution, livestock inspectors are able to use their mobile phones to send reports on livestock figures from anywhere in the country directly to the Department of Agriculture and Food's computers. This makes for more immediate and efficient reporting of figures, Puca claims. Previously inspectors had to manually enter the figures when they returned to their offices.