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  • Ireland: Government urged to look locally for IT

    The Irish Software Association has hit out at the government for choosing US multinationals over Irish software companies to develop its IT projects.

  • Ireland: Government websites inaccessible, says report

    More than 90% of Irish Governmental websites are inaccessible to people with disabilities, a new report has found.

    Initial results from the eGovernment Benchmarking survey reveals that overuse of inaccessible PDF documents is creating significant difficulties for people with disabilities.

  • Ireland: Group to review public service positions

    A special group to identify posts and activities that are "not essential" in the public service is to be set up by the Government.

    The establishment of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes was announced yesterday as part of the Government's plan for reforms of the public service.

    The planned changes also include the extension of staff performance reviews, which apply in the civil service and local government, to all areas of the public service.

  • Ireland: Hanafin acknowledges e-government delays

    Minister for the Information Society, Mary Hanafin, TD, has admitted in a new progress report that delays have hampered a number of e-government services.

  • Ireland: Hanafin publishes upbeat e-gov report

    The government has published an upbeat report on recent ICT and e-government initiatives in Ireland.

    The second progress report on "New Connections," the government's plan to develop Ireland's Information Society, said that e-government, broadband, e-inclusion, R&D and e-business initiatives are progressing well.

  • Ireland: High-tech plan to lift NI healthcare

    In a ten-year information and communications programme, Northern Ireland has outlined a strategy to modernise the country's health services.

    Northern Ireland's health minister Angela Smith announced the launch of the Health and Personal Social Services (HPSS) strategy on Monday saying that the ten-year programme would be backed by a STG95 million investment and will deliver new systems and technology across the health sector in Northern Ireland.

  • Ireland: ICT companies invited to join in e-Government project

    NIO Minister Ian Pearson has launched new guidelines for the initiation of e-Government Pilot Projects in the Stormont Hotel, Belfast, today. The event, hosted by the sectoral representative body of the ICT industry, Momentum, outlined how private sector companies could submit ideas on how the government could do business in the 21st Century by taking advantage of modern technology.

  • Ireland: Iffy Revenue computer wins Euro award

    The Revenue Commissions on-line service (ROS) recieved an award today for being one of Europe's most innovative public services.

    The ROS, which was launched in September 2001, allows taxpayers to file tax returns and access their account information over the internet.

  • Ireland: Improving Health Of E-Government Drive

    The need to provide better public services more efficiently and at lower cost is driving unprecedented change in the way Government interacts with its citizens.

    The European Union wants Government services to be accessible online by 2005, and many public sector organisations are making good progress towards this goal.

  • Ireland: Interaction is the key to local democracy

    The deployment of e-government services is seen as pivotal in Fingal County Council’s quest to bring local democracy to citizens and enable them to access Council services in the communities where they live and work.

    The council says its aim is to deliver efficient management of citizen contact systems and to offer a far greater number of virtual contact points where citizens of Fingal can access services and information.

  • Ireland: Internet divides not conquers

    {mospagebreak}There was a time when e-government was seen as one of the main drivers in promoting digital or e-inclusion. In fact many people still believe this to be the case. But it was very much the vogue about five or six years ago, at the beginning of the e-government hype. In fairness to those who were advocating this ‘solution’ to the digital divide, they did so with the best of intentions and on the understanding that e-government would be all pervasive — that putting services online would make them more attractive and thereby attract the digitally divided to the information age.

  • Ireland: Juggling issues of access

    Since the early days of e-government there has been much talk about joined-up government. I think it was Tony Blair who first used this term. The concept is simple and those of us who touted it as the great solution for transforming government knew that the technology was there to make it happen. After all, that’s what internet technologies are all about — making it possible for people and organisations to connect up to each other and remove a lot of the unnecessary noise from public administration.

    There have been others, of course, who took an opposing view, seeing this new drive to connect and share information as a danger to citizens. Some even argued that the inability of organisations in the past to share information about their clients was itself a safeguard of civil rights. That’s why we have rules about data protection.

  • Ireland: Kerry County Council wins top e-gov award

    At a ceremony in Dublin on Thursday, six Irish public sector bodies were recognised for their outstanding work in e-government over the last year.

    The Eircom-sponsored event, called the "Innovation Through Technology Awards," was run by Inside Government magazine, a publication that caters to civil servants and public sector employees. The event marked the first year of awards and included a keynote address from Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and closing remarks from Eircom CEO Dr. Philip Nolan.

  • Ireland: Key e-gov mechanism to launch next year

  • Ireland: Land Registry Office picks up top award

    The Land Registry Office, which has successfully migrated 80 percent of its business online, was crowned overall winner of the Irish eGovernment Awards 2005.

    The governmental department was awarded the prize in recognition of its success in utilising electronic services. The Land Registry Office now completes 3,300 business transactions per day via its website. In 2004 the government department's site completed 769,000 transactions via the site and has seen more than 2 million paid transactions carried out since it was first launched. The Land Registry Office also picked up a "Best Central eGovernment" honour at the awards.

  • Ireland: Late online taxpayers are facing surcharges and audit

    Self-employed people who missed Thursday's midnight deadline for filing their income tax returns online were warned yesterday to speedily resolve the issue.

    Those who failed to meet the deadline face penal surcharges and may end up being audited by the taxman, director of taxation at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland Brian Keegan said.

  • Ireland: Launch of new on-line redundancy payments system

    Minister for Labour Affairs Tony Killeen today launched a new on-line redundancy payments system for the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment.

  • Ireland: Life’s certainties – the net and taxes

    The most successful e-government public service to date, the Revenue Online Service (ROS) processes 70pc of all income tax forms filed in the country as well as 92pc of all new vehicle registrations.

    The ROS site (www.ros.ie) was launched in 2000 following the 1997 Irish Information Society Commission’s statement that “self-service over the internet should be introduced by all government departments as a matter of urgency”.

  • Ireland: Local authorities opt for e-procurement

    Local authorities in Ireland are adopting new technology to help communicate more easily with their suppliers.

    The new solution, already implemented by Kerry County Council, allows suppliers to submit their annual quotes online using dynamic e-forms through www.laquotes.ie.

  • Ireland: M-government could yield EUR20m in savings

    The Irish government could save as much as EUR20 million a year by increasing its use of mobile technologies, a new report claims.

    The study, "Mobile Communications in the Irish Public Sector", was carried out by iReach on behalf of the mobile operator O2 Ireland.

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