The Netherlands has compulsory education for children until the age of 16. The monitoring solutions of school attendance have so far not been too uniform or integrated. The introduction of a digital register for highschool students who are skipping lessons will lead to administrative costs savings of 4.5 million Euros, according to a Dutch deputy minister in her statement on Tuesday 19th of May in a session of the Dutch parliament. The introduction of such a portal should take place this year.

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Palkka.fi proudly presents a new feature starting April 2009:

A business using Palkka.fi can now save the salary files as a CSV-file instead of printing them out as paper files. The CSV-file can then be sent to the bookkeeper electronically. Up until now the files had to be printed out to be mailed to the bookeeping - where they had to be either typed or scanned into the accounting system. 

Thus the new feature builds up considerable savings both in time and delivery expenses for both parties. I..

I wrote a blog post on this 

http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=2815

Often public organizations are accused of passive or reactionary public relations strategies. I am a great supporter for the adoption soft selling approaches by government institutions. The world of (mobile) gaming e.g. can be an effective channel for informing customers.

Utrecht is the main rail transport hub of the Netherlands. The city decided to drastically renovate the railway station and city area around it. Citizen needed to be informed about the drastical changes taking place in the cit..

One part of electronic government and our society is the storing and retrieval of medical data. Medical errors cost many lives per year in europe, if the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, fysiotherapists, dentists, ambulance staff and all others involved in the medical work have access to the right information than some of these errors can be prevented.

To give them this information the government is establishing the Electronic Medical Record. what do you think, should every medical staff person g..

Most of the 1990's and early part of the current decennium was the period of achieving real time in information management and decision making within the organization. Real time in this context often means "within a day". Looking into processes between organizations (e.g. supply chains and networks) e-invoicing and e-payments are internationally the most discussed real-time enterprise solutions today. Even there the penetration of eInvoicing is at very early stages in Europe and Scandinavian ..