The government wanted to keep parliament informed of progress to date on its IT and eGovernment strategy, as well as on some current changes and updates. Approval is also needed for two supplementary credits in 2008 to pay for the ambitious plan. The extra loans will add up to CHF1 125 000 (approx. €694 700).
It is well worth it, in the authorities’ view. eGovernment, they point out, is “often a synonym for modern and efficient administration”. It enables Liechtenstein’s national administration to “supplement the traditional means of service provision with electronic access for a broad section of the public”. In recent years, the Internet has contributed to “major qualitative progress in communication between the national administration and its customers – i.e. business, citizens and administrations”.
The report, and an accompanying motion put to parliament, analyses the current eGovernment situation in Liechtenstein as well as giving detailed presentations both of strategy implementation and of individual projects. The aim is to create a wide range of user-friendly basic services by 2011. According to the government, the national administration’s clients should, in future, “be able to accomplish as many administrative processes as possible easily and fast by electronic means, without needing any particular knowledge of who is responsible, nor any special technical know-how”.
