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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We are now in the process of expanding the public debt - in our childrens name -  beyond previously imagined boundaries. Apart from being a questionable practise to use much more money than you earn - it is also by definition leading to over-consumption.

And what are we borrowing for? Is it for creating more sustainable structures and way of life? Is it for the better productivity in face of rapidly dwindling workforce - like the RTE program themes? Or is it panicky - preserving old structures ..

There are no "private customers" either.. Only human customers in different roles. And they surely deserve to be served with similar tools, logic and language irrespective of the role. Anything else is bad service and slowing up adoption of more productive practises in both roles.

This is especially important for SMEs - 23 million of them in EU. It is well known that the bureacratic and reporting demands put on them is continuing to grow at the same time as their customers and suppliers ask th..

TAYS is about to introduce a new sms service for patient appointments.

Annually the hospital calls in some 300 000 patients of which one fifth (!) cancels their appointment, many of them only a few hours before. If the problem is not taken care of properly, this means a huge economic loss.

The new system is designed to look up a new patient from the line to replace the cancelled appointment. He/she gets an sms proposing an appointment. He/she then has two hours to answer "Yes, please! I'll be pl..

Today it was announced that: Groningen, biggest city in the North of the Netherlands app 185,000 inhabitants, will get as one of the first cities in the world a citywide network for wireless internet access.

This summer the construction of the network will start in the centre of the city. At the beginning of 2011 the whole city should have access.

The system of wireless internet access in Groningen is special, because it is not using hotspots but a citywide WiFi network. The system is also speci..

In the US veterans of war have the option of receiving free or very cheap healthcare at the Veterans Administration hospital, they have implemented a large electronic medical health record system that appears to be working and has made for some remarkable savings,

examples, errors in prescriptions down from 4 to 0,003 %,   20 % reduction in tests taken.

see more here,  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_29/b3993061. htm?chan=tc&chan=technology_technology+index+page_best+of+th e+maga..

In the e-health discussion many authors want the data stored to be the property of the patient, but if the data is stored by a government controlled organization e.g. KELA, it will never be really so. Therefore this idea, would it be feasible to have private companies who store medical and other data that can be used and accessed by medical staff when there is a need, and otherwise is under the control of the patient,.

 In a way akin to the banking system where anyone can choose the bank they w..

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..

Writing realistic business plan that predicts correctly 5 years of business success is really challenge.

Instead of Goverment giving Word document and Excel Sheet there should be a service that would give guidance based upon the knowledge of Financial Cluster from the Specific Industry to make better Business Plans with faster time-to-market

As an entrepreneur, steering your startup on the financial path to success needs an effective financial roadmap and a thorough understanding of how it will ..

 There is an European network (http://www.mgovernment.org/index.html) whose activities might be worth following. They are interested in developing mobile services.