A bill seeking to digitalize the bureaucracy has been approved by the House committee on information and communications technology. READ:
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On Wednesday the committee passed an unnumbered substitute bill seeking to effect a government transition to an electronic mode of delivering services and information. “We have already streamlined , but the problem is, the system is still slow. We still follow the person-to-person and paper-to-paper systems,” he told the panel.
The measure defines e-governance as the application of information and communications technology to government, business, and the public service, with a view to making processes more efficient.
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