"The socially disadvantaged are often the same citizens who are excluded from using the Government's electronic services, as well as those who make most use of the public sector's resources," said the Minister for Home and Parliamentary Affairs Carm Mifsud Bonnici at the launch of the project in Mriehel this afternoon.
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Juan Borg Manduca, the chief officer for information systems and transformation at the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) explained to i-Tech the evolution of e-government services which consistently increase in popularity in terms of the value of the transactions handled.
Read more: A major evolutionary step for e-government in Malta
The Healthy Living Portal, https://ehealth.gov.mt/healthportal/healthyliving/home.aspx, was created by the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate at the end of 2011 to grant citizens access to reliable information for a healthier lifestyle.
Read more: MT: Healthy living website registers over 38,000 hits
Figures published yesterday by Eurostat show that over a four year period, Malta also registered the highest increase in the number of computer graduates in the bloc. According to surveys commissioned by the EU’s statistics office, back in 2005 only 1.9 per cent of all local graduates were in ICT-related fields but by 2009 the figure had gone up to 5.6 per cent. In the EU on the other hand, the average number of ICT graduates shrink to 3.4 per cent from four per cent in 2005.
The Government of Malta says it is committed to accelerating the roll-out of ultra-fast broadband services to all areas of Malta and Gozo, concentrating initially on priority broadband users such as schools, hospitals, businesses, and providers of other public services, where possible. Following this, it plans to reach all residential areas in a phased approach through a nationwide FTTH network.
Read more: Malta announces plans to roll out nationwide FTTH network