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Draft Authentication Standards released for consultation

The State Services Commission today released a set of draft authentication standards for public consultation.

The standards are designed to provide New Zealanders with a uniform and consistent experience of secure online transactions with government agencies.

The Office of Management and Budget is looking to link all federal agencies to a Web site that allows users to submit electronic rulemaking comments by fiscal 2007, the nation's top administrator for e-government said Monday.

The agency launched regulation.gov in 2003, but much of the work on the Web site would be considered "foundational work," Karen Evans said during a Capitol Hill e-rulemaking symposium. E-government "now is really focused on getting results."

The acceleration in the deployment of WiMAX, the latest wireless technology, by the Goverment is one way of increasing the rate of personal computer and Internet adoption across the country, says the world’s biggest chipmaker Intel Corp.

The company, whose Asian Broadband Campaign involves working with South-East Asian governments in stepping up wireless broadband deployment, believes that WiMAX can serve as the basis in helping governments achieve the goal of having digital inclusion.

Den IT-Projekten im öffentlichen Sektor fehlt es an Zielen und Effizienz. Die öffentliche Hand sollte sich das eine oder andere von privaten Akteuren abschauen.

Effizient gestaltete IT könnte den deutschen Verwaltungen große Einspareffekte bescheren und die dringend notwendige Verwaltungsreform vorantreiben. So lauten die Grundaussagen einer aktuellen McKinsey-Studie über den Einsatz von IT im öffentlichen Sektor.

Who hasn't dreamt of one day being able to check the status of one's driving license and traffic fines without having to go in person to the department? Or to know before going there exactly what documents are required in order to renew an ID card? Or even to renew one's passport, to pay one's income tax, and complete other government formalities without being forced to physically go to the concerned department with all the implications in terms of wasted time, transportation, money, and effort? Well, perhaps we need not dream anymore for this is all bound to become reality soon. Some of these online features and functions have actually been implemented already, although it seems few are aware of this. The drive to provide the Kingdom with such services is known as the e-Government Initiative.