Lithuania - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities in Lithuania.
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eGovernment - Lithuania - Archive
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Archived articles and resources about egovernment activities in Lithuania.
- Campaign launched to promote public eService usage beyond its current 23 %
- ePractice.eu, 19 September 2011. Country Lithuania; Domain eGovernment; Topic Inclusive eGovernment, Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Policy, User-centric Services. "According to a poll conducted in July 2011, 23% of Lithuanian citizens currently use electronic public and administrative services. In the light of these results, a campaign was launched to actively promote the use of eServices.
The usage of eServices in Lithuania is below the EU average, which in 2010 stood at 41% of citizens, and which is expected to reach 50% by 2015..."
- Regional projects for the development of electronic democracy successfully implemented with EU funds support
- ePractice.eu, 6 June 2011. Country Lithuania, EU Institutions; Domain eGovernment; Topic Efficiency & Effectiveness, Benchmarking, eParticipation, eDemocracy and eVoting, Services for Citizens, Policy, Regional and Local, User-centric Services. "As part of the Operational Programme for Economic Growth, there are 42 regional projects that have either successfully carried out or are currently implementing the 'Electronic democracy' measure under priority axis 'Information society for all'.
These regional projects, which are financed by the municipalities, have introduced ICT solutions as part of this priority measure, thus enhancing public sector transparency, accountability and quality of decision making, as well as allowing the strengthening of community and new forms of political expression..."
- Lithuania goes live with STORK electronic identity pilot
- ePractice.eu, 8 June 2011. Country Lithuania, EU Institutions; Domain eGovernment; Topic eIdentity and eSecurity, Services for Businesses, Services for Citizens, High Impact Services with Pan-European Scope, Infrastructure, Interoperability, Policy, User-centric Services. "... The scope of this pilot is to enable online public services to be accessed securely by citizens of member states using their nationally issued eID credentials. It aims to achieve more cooperation between EU Member States, via mutual recognition of their respective national eID schemes. Through technical interoperability with electronic services, the ease-of-use and take up of these services will be improved across national borders..."
- 32% of population complete national census online
- ePractice.eu, 22 April 2011. Country Lithuania; Domain eGovernment; Topic eIdentity and eSecurity, Services for Citizens, User-centric Services. "More than a million people, or 32% of Lithuania's population, completed the 2011 Population and Housing Census online, it was reported on 21 March 2011..."
- First census to allow participation via the Internet
- ePractice.eu, 22 February 2011. Country Lithuania; Domain eGovernment; Topic Services for Citizens, User-centric Services, Other. "For the first time, residents will be able to participate electronically in the Lithuanian general population and housing census, which takes place during March-May 2011. .."
- Information Society Ministry's proposals to rapidly increase number of Internet users
- ePractice.eu, 13 October 2010. Country Lithuania; Domain eInclusion; Topic (public) e-services for disadvantaged people, Broadband, Digital literacy and competences, Geographical eInclusion. "The Lithuanian Ministry of Transports and Communications, the competent Minister for Information Society development, put forward a set of ideas to make three quarters of the country's population able to use the Internet..."
- Three new public eServices launched
- ePractice.eu, 5 July 2010. Country Lithuania; Domain eGovernment; Topic eIdentity and eSecurity, Services for Businesses, Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Legal Aspects, User-centric Services. "On 1 July 2010 three new electronic services were introduced by the Police Department of the Lithuanian Ministry of Interior and the State Enterprise Regitra respectively. These services are: electronic notification of committed crimes, driver's license exchange service and registration of new vehicles..."
- e-health portal launched for Lithuania
- eHealth Europe, 1 September 2008. "A new Lithuanian ehealth information website has been launched to keep health professionals and members of the public informed about the development of Lithuania’s National Electronic Health System (NESS)..."
- YouTube platform for ministry's training videos
- ePractice.eu, 18 February 2008. Country
Lithuania; Domain eGovernment; Topic eIdentity and eSecurity, eServices for Citizens. "Educational videos about staying safe on-line have been made available on the popular video-sharing website YouTube. The Lithuanian Ministry of the Interior has put a series of films about information security on YouTube in order to reach a wider audience..."
- Electronic signatures on the move in Lithuania
- ePractice.eu, 2 November 2007. Country: Lithuania; Domain: eGovernment; Topic: Interoperability and infrastructure, eIdentity and eSecurity, eServices for Citizens. "A special government-backed multi-stakeholder programme has developed a special eSignature which Lithuanians can use for electronic signatures using their mobile phones..."
- Land tax on-line
- ePractice.eu, 22 October 2007. Country: Lithuania; Domain: eGovernment; Topic: Interoperability and infrastructure, eServices for Citizens. "Lithuanian landowners can find all the information about their properties and the amount of tax payable on the STI Electronic Declaration System (EDS), the Lithuanian State Tax Inspectorate (STI) has announced. In addition, from next year, they will no longer need to send the tax return by post..."
- Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate expands its range of eServices
- ePractice.eu, 7 September 2007. Country: Lithuania; Topic: eGovernment Services for Citizens, eGovernment Services for Businesses, Infrastructure and Interoperability. "The Lithuanian Ministry of Finance's Tax Inspectorate has announced that tax returns and reports on the transactions and commercial operations of businesses can be submitted on-line via its electronic declaration system (EDS). In total, Lithuanian citizens and entities can submit 53 different returns and other documents via this system..."
- eHealth strategy approved
- ePractice.eu, 9 July 2007. Country: Lithuania; Topic: Policy and Strategy, eHealth. "The Lithuanian eHealth Strategy Project for 2007-2015 has just been approved by the eHealth Development Coordination Board, meeting at the Ministry of Health..."
- Lithuanian household internet users up by 20% on last year
- ePractice.eu, 9 July 2007. Country: Lithuania; Topic: Infrastructure and Interoperability. "A survey by TNS Gallup has shown that the number of household internet users in Lithuania has increased by 20% in one year, making up 70% of all web users. Internet computer subscriptions as a whole were up by 10%, with 90% using broadband connections..."
- On-line voting to be tested in the autumn
- ePractice.eu - 18 June 2007 - Lithuania - eDemocracy. "The Lithuanian Information Society Development Committee has announced plans to test on-line voting this autumn during a by-election in the Alytus District. If successful, this method could be used nationally during the 2008 parliamentary elections, following the Estonian model..."
This category last updated: 21 September 2011