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The latest news from Hillingdon Council on consultations, roadworks, licensing applications, jobs and much more is now available via text message to your mobile phone and by email.

The new service will be launched by Cabinet Minister, Jim Murphy MP, on Thursday 20 October at 11.40am at the Civic Centre, Uxbridge.

Residents can sign up for the new email and text alerts on the council's website.

Jim Murphy MP, the Cabinet Minister whose responsibilities include e-government, is visiting Hillingdon to find out about its good practice in providing electronic services. The council's website offers a wide range of services online and free internet access is available through 200 PCs at Hillingdon's 17 libraries. Some of the innovative services soon to be available at Hillingdon include a new digital television channel offering our online services on the TV and reporting things like abandoned vehicles and flytipping via text message from a mobile phone.

Cllr Jonathan Bianco, Cabinet Member for Finance, Regeneration and Corporate Services, said: "As part of our commitment to continually improve services for our residents, we are providing more and more services using technology. This means that information can be accessed quickly and easily, at any time of the day. The new email and text alerts is just one example of the wide range of convenient online services that we provide."

Jim Murphy MP said: "Superb schemes like this are right at the heart of our strategy on e-government - it’s about coming up with ways to use IT to deliver public services based entirely around the needs and circumstances of individual consumers."

Quelle: eGov monitor, 21.10.2005