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As for government - depends on a country. In Poland we have an mCitizen (mObywatel) mobile app that allows to handle more things tear by year, and we have inter

As for government - depends on a country. In Poland we have an mCitizen (mObywatel) mobile app that allows to handle more things tear by year, and we have internet sites with unified citizen login for most of the other government interactions. The last time our IRS wanted sth from me, they just e-mailed me, I replied and the issue was solved in 5 minutes. Oh, and you don’t need any paper ids within the country - driver license, car registration and official citizen id are apps on your phone, and if you don’t have your phone when say police catches you, you give them your data and they check it with their database and with your photo to confirm.

gambiting 2y ago
You don't have to walk to the local government office to get car registration plates anymore? That was always annoying as hell.
- kolinko 2y ago
  That’s one of the remaining bastions, sadly. The pickup I can understand, but the need for signup is weird. On the upside, they are removing the requirements to change plates when you buy a used car, so there’s that.
nox101 2y ago
> The last time our IRS wanted sth from me, they just e-mailed me, I replied and the issue was solved in 5 minutes. Lol, that will never happen in the USA. We have companies like Intuit actively lobbying against making things easy because their entire business is claiming to deal with the complexity for you.
- kolinko 2y ago
  Yeah. Another cool thing is that we have government tax forms that are web/mobile, and it takes like 2 min and 8 clicks to fill them - including login. (for private people)
tavavex 2y ago
Sounds similar to what the Ukrainian government did with the Diya app (lit. "Act/Action" but also an abbreviation of "the country and me") a few years ago. It's an interesting trend to see Eastern Europe adopt this deep level of internet integration before the countries that pioneered that same internet.

gambiting 2y ago

You don't have to walk to the local government office to get car registration plates anymore? That was always annoying as hell.

kolinko 2y ago
That’s one of the remaining bastions, sadly. The pickup I can understand, but the need for signup is weird. On the upside, they are removing the requirements to change plates when you buy a used car, so there’s that.

nox101 2y ago

> The last time our IRS wanted sth from me, they just e-mailed me, I replied and the issue was solved in 5 minutes. Lol, that will never happen in the USA. We have companies like Intuit actively lobbying against making things easy because their entire business is claiming to deal with the complexity for you.

kolinko 2y ago
Yeah. Another cool thing is that we have government tax forms that are web/mobile, and it takes like 2 min and 8 clicks to fill them - including login. (for private people)

tavavex 2y ago

Sounds similar to what the Ukrainian government did with the Diya app (lit. "Act/Action" but also an abbreviation of "the country and me") a few years ago. It's an interesting trend to see Eastern Europe adopt this deep level of internet integration before the countries that pioneered that same internet.