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Ask HN: Does your government provide digital public services?
Many governmental administration agencies have started to think about or to implement digital services for their citizens: Voting in regional elections, registering companies, delivering tax information.
How does your local administration use technology to improve its services?
I think this is a field underrepresented on HN, but with quite significant effects, e.g. for entrepreneurs that have to deal with bureaucracy.
- netrus 13y agoTo get this started: In Germany, many local agencies have developed online processes to obtain birth certificates. In some places, i just need to fill an online form and payment and identitiy verification is handled by the postal service. However, these are island solutions, that are often poorly executed. If I live in Hamburg, was born in Berlin, and want to marry in Munich I will have to communicate with all three registration offices regarding my birth certificate, with no automatic information transfer at all.