The French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has launched the country's latest e-government strategy involving 140 new projects.
Known as "Adele" or Administration Electronique, the €1.8bn programme is hoped to drive forward efforts to restructure the French bureaucracy. It was launched along with a document providing technical details on each project. The launch included an animated online video titled "La nouvelle vie d'Adèle et Marc" showing two characters using online services.
The French Government is to launch a nation wide telephone hotline for accessing public services.
The service, known as Allo Service Public, will provide access to information already provided by the country's main e-government portal.
Die französische Verwaltung soll mit einem mehrjährigen Milliardenprogramm "elektronisch" umgestaltet und damit bürgernäher gemacht werden.
Plans to introduce an electronic identity card in France by 2006 have been announced by the country's minister of the interior.