Enterprise Minister, Ian Pearson today outlined the government’s vision on the way forward for joining-up public services in Northern Ireland.
The Minister was addressing delegates attending the Society of Information Technology Management (SOCITM) Conference, the first event of its kind to be held in Belfast.
Ireland says it is making e-government progress with a new online civil registration system now available
The Irish Government is to start transforming its paper based Civil Registration System, setting up a national "life event" database as part of efforts to provide birth, death and marriage certificates online, it announced on 7 October 2003.
Ireland's public sector is not showing enough enthusiasm for purchasing goods and services online, says a critical official report
The Irish Government's attempts to reform its procurement activities are "disappointing" and it has severely underestimated the amount it can hope to save from online purchasing, according to the country's Information Society Commission (ISC).
A new e-government project launched on Tuesday includes the EUR9 million computerisation of the civil registration process.
Estimates of EUR175 million in government savings through e-procurement are wrong, the ISC has said, claiming EUR1 billion is a more appropriate figure.