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 aim is that by 2006, the French public will be able to conduct all business with the Government remotely by phone or over the internet.
The strategy follows the launch earlier this year of a single telephone number – 39 39 – for obtaining information on public services. The 140 projects cover 300 e-services.
The major projects include:
- an electronic ID card to be developed and available in 2006
- a one stop shop website for address changes to be launched by the end of this year
- e-enabling of public sector procurement over the next three years
- financial and management systems to be overhauled across government
Raffarin launched the strategy while visiting Lyon along with minister for state reform Henri Plagnol on 9 February 2004.
"I want my government to be mobilised around electronic administration, which is a great enabler for state reform," he said.
Quelle: Kablenet, 11.02.2004
