Singapore. Access to all govt services via SMS

By the year end, Singaporeans can access all government e-services -- from paying parking fines to checking CPF accounts -- by simply sending SMS messages from their cellphones, reports the Straits Times. "The SMS or short message service will allow access to existing as well as 15 new e-services currently in development".

... "To ensure that people without access or who lack the know-how to use the services are not left behind, it will open within the next year 25 CitizenConnect centres -- free, manned Internet kiosks to teach users how they can interact with the Government online. The first centres were introduced last October, and there are currently five around the island."

Picture above left - cell phones sold on the side of the road in Singapore.

emily | 7:51 AM | SMS and Government |
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