Government web page for everyone?

[Steveg]

All public services could be delivered online within four years under an ambitious pledge by Gordon Brown to create a paperless state and save billions of pounds, The Times has learnt........

The aim is that within a year, everybody in the country should have a personalised website through which they would be able to find out about local services and do business with the Government. A unique identifier will allow citizens to apply for a place for their child at school, book a doctor’s appointment, claim benefits, get a new passport, pay council tax or register a car from their computer at home. .....

Although some transactions, such as filling in a self-assessment tax return can now be done online it was still too complicated, said a Downing Street source. It should be “much easier, like buying a holiday.

Government webpage for every citizen in the race to create a paperless society - Times Online

What's your reaction? - laugh / cry / disbelief / horror ?

[ByHisGrace]

Steve we already have a site on Freeview TV that gives that information

[Steveg]

Steve we already have a site on Freeview TV that gives that information

This is not for information. This is how everyone will do business with the government.

[Lily]

What's your reaction? - laugh / cry / disbelief / horror ?

When I think about my Mother telling me she couldn't get a video in the slot on a DVD player I bought her and answering a text message on her mobile, holding it upside down to her ear and saying, elllllooooo, then thinking of her having to work out a PC, it makes me go,,,

[canny]

Makes me wonder if it's already April 1st...

[smellycat]

easier the Gooder i say.
lets keep life simple.