Technology
Malta aiming high in e-government
By MaltaMedia News
Oct 3, 2007 - 6:18:41 PM

In a project that will take Malta to the highest places in the European rankings on e-Government, all Government services will be accessible online by the year 2010.

During a press launch, Minister for Investments, Industry and IT Austin Gatt spoke about this ambitious project while inaugurating new e-Government services that will allow the online provision of notifications of deaths and the search for wills.

Around 3,000 deaths are registered in Malta every year and the new systems will make it easier for people who have to notify a death or for those who need to look up a will. The electronic systems will quicken the procedure and make it much more time efficient.

Minister Gatt said that Government would soon be forming an alliance with Maltese software suppliers with a view to step up the pace with which Government launched online services.

The Minister for Justice and Home Affairs Tonio Borg also addressed the press conference saying that Malta is at the forefront in e-Government. He stated that the Government intends to keep strengthening such services in order to facilitate the life of the public and to reduce the running around from one Government department to another.

Minister Borg also said that his ministry was amongst those that offered numerous online services such as birth and death certificates and passport procedures.