Every citizen to have personal webpage

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UK citzing getting personal webpage

There might be many people prefer being offline, yet UK government is pushing them to be online now. This is been done by British government for two separate moves, one to satisfy lobbyists, and then to satisfy the voting public. The Digital Economy Bill, in its present form, would get people kicked off the Internet after being charged of file-sharing while Prime Minister Gordon Brown is now stating how its government would bring broadband connections to every citizen and a central web hub for people to handle their business with authorities.

News comes from Telegraph.co.uk

Everyone in the country is to be given a personalised webpage for accessing Government services within a year as part of a plan to save billions of pounds by putting all public services online, Gordon Brown is to announce.

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said: ”Cutting public services is not only bad for the public who use services but also the economy as we are pushing people who provide valuable services on the dole.” Among the Prime Minister’s advisers on the drive to put services online is World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

”I don’t want to go to a government office to do a government thing. It should all be online. That saves time for people and it saves money for the Government – the processing of a piece of paper and mailing it back costs many times more than it costs to process something electronically,” he told the newspaper

It is indeed a good move and the idea behind is very clear. It is to enable UK citizen to go online for all their requirements, for example, applying for schools, getting a new passport, to pay council tax, or to book a car. Further down the line, UK citizens would each get their personal unique identifiers and web pages. The government thinks this would save up quite a lot of money by shutting down plenty of offices. Critics claim that the last thing the UK requires in this economy is more people losing their jobs.