French Government Online-Why Isn't the U.S.?

Posted by Cliff on Monday November 19, 2001 @02:29AM from the why-can't-we-do-something-like-this dept.

DullTrev asks: "Looks like the French are pushing forward once again with their online government plans. The BBC News site has this article about the new portal about to be launched. The article says the portal 'will give every citizen a personal internet portal allowing them to pay taxes online, register a child for a state school, or be reminded that their regulatory car inspection is due in a month's time'. The UK government has had this portal up for a while, and are steadily expanding their services. This is all within the EU government systems that are (not surprisingly) encouraging online government all over the place. How does this kind of thing compare to the US?"

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Re:Canada's doing the same. by kawlyn · 2001-11-19 02:44 · Score: 5, Informative

The Canadian Initiative is called GOL (Govenment Online). All federal departments have to have thier services available online by 2004. the man site is here and the GOL info is here .
It's a ptetty big initiative, but they are making a lot of progress. It's looking like every taxpayer is going to have a government issue PKI key.

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