The Housing Bureau is to implement an online service for new real estate agents and brokers to apply for their licenses early next year, the bureau announced yesterday.
According to the head of the Bureau’s license and supervision division, Cheong Sek Lam, the new services are to be part of the policies for building e-government as stated in the city’s five year plan.
Weiterlesen: MO: Online license application for realtors available early-2017
Following last year’s establishment of the government’s five-year e-government plan, the Director of the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP), Kou Peng Kuan, said during TDM radio programme Macao Forum that an e-government can only be fully implemented with legal support, commenting that law amendments will only start in 2017.
Director Kou said the five-year plan will be implemented in two stages, with the first three years focusing on tasks such as the improvement of procedures, formation of a basic platform, application practice and legal support.
The deputy director of the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP), Kou Peng Kuan, said that the government would announce the city’s overall planning for e-government for 2015 to 2019 within the third quarter of this year.
Replying to legislator Chan Meng Kam’s interpellation that urged a timeframe for such planning, Mr. Kou wrote that e-administration planning would be submitted for the government’s internal consultation next month before the announcement of the plan in the third quarter.
Weiterlesen: MO: Overall planning of e-government to be announced in Q3
The MSAR government presented its five-year plan for the overall development of the e-government project.
Published on the government’s official webpage (www.gov.mo) on the last day of 2015, the plan consists of six parts and details measures to be developed between 2015 and 2019.
The highlights of the plan were several measures that aim to create a unified platform in collaboration with the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) in order to better manage and store data related to human resources, finance and property management. The single platform would allow citizens to more readily obtain information and lodge requests concerning different public service procedures; to submit applications; to clarify the status of pending applications, or to even complete online payments.
Weiterlesen: MO: Gov’t presents five-year plan to develop e-government
The new generation of ID cards will be purely contactless, and will store personal data and biometric information such as fingerprints on a digital chip embedded in the card. The IDs can be used as conventional IDs, providing sophisticated visual and electronic proof of identity, but will also allow citizens to carry out transactions with the government electronically, saving time and effort.