| cooperation between administrations
at all
levels of government
using Web 2.0 and semantic technologies. The new wiki, which
was launched by Austria’s Administrative Research Centre (KDZ), aimed to promote the
transfer of know-how between administrative units and to stimulate further specialist
discussion.
The Austrian
legal eGovernment framework
is
substantially revised
at the end of
December 2007. Among other laws, the eGovernment Act, the Electronic Signature Act
and the General Law on Administration Processes are amended. Some of the new
provisions will enter into force on
1 January 2008
. These provisions include those
intended to promote usage of the eID concept Citizen Card, to simplify usage of
administrative signatures and to facilitate the integration of the citizen card concept into
private sector processes. The revised ABC guide to eGovernment in Austria incorporated
all new facts.
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