A new study has suggested that the public are not likely to adopt e-government services en masse until at least 2013, casting some doubt over the government's self-imposed deadline of having all public services online by 2005.
Awareness of online government services remains low
The government is pinning its hopes on a new initiative this Spring to drive take-up of public services, because efforts so far have failed to boost numbers.
The government's £1bn plan to put all public services online is in danger of creating "online millennium domes with just as few visitors", a new report has warned.
Residents could soon be able to pay their council tax over the internet after a Staffordshire authority won a £200,000 Government grant.
The money was awarded to Lichfield District Council as part of an on-going £850,000 initiative to make its services more internet friendly.
We might not need to be told this again, but yet another survey has revealed that government websites are not yet attracting users in large numbers.