E-Government.

There are many forms of E-government, these include on-line information sites, there are also forms of democracy taking place on-line such as E-petitions, which allow the user to sign a petition, if it gets more than 100,000 signatures then it will be discussed in parliament. Other forms of E-government are .gov sites, these include information about services and offer aid to some people, for example, grants for students  It makes it very easy to sign up as it requires no paper work and can all be done via the internet, from your computer. One massive advantage to on-line government it that is allows people to independently apply for services or find out about information without leaving their house, whereas before to apply for a grant you would have to either ring them up or go to their main building, now people can do this from their computer, this meant that they could give new jobs to those who were signing people up before E-government was around. Here is a list of different E-government websites, I have put them in order of helpfulness in different sectors.

www.beford.gov.uk: From my table I have shown the good characteristics of the Bedford.gov.uk website. It offers a good amount of information and services that people in the local area will find useful  It also gives you a good amount of advice about how and where to apply for certain services. The website isn't so good for paying online or for onine bookings, it's more for people who are looking for information rather than onlne payment.

 

www.number10.gov.uk: This website also did well on the information about the government. It is one which helps you make your mind up to vote by giving useful information about the political system and the parties that you are able to vote for, It also helps you with general advice related to voting, But much like the Bedford one it, doesn't specialise in online payment or online bookings. It is there for people who require more information on the electoral system and political policies.

 

www.befordshire.police.uk:  the Bedfordshire police website in my opinion was the best for online information and guidance. it gave in depth information and advice on reporting crimes and getting in contact with the police, and it also went over what to look out for when suspicious of a crime, also it scored moderate in the information category. but once again it had nothing to do with onlne payment and booking, which is to be expected from a police website.

 

www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm: The direct Gov. website gave a moderate amount of information, It had lots of different categories but the way in which is was presented made it slightly convoluted, although after some time I was able to work my way around the website with ease . It didn't score highly on any category because in my opinion a lot of other websites did better in giving information.

 

www.nhs.uk/pages/homepage.aspx: The NHS website was fairly good on most categories, The best of which would be the advice and report category  NHS is a National service so it needs to ensure that the people of England understand their policies and know how the service works, in any case of an emergency people will need to know this information, this is why they focus more on advice than anything, as there is no  online booking or online payment of any kind. This is understandable as it is a free service.

 

www.dft.gov..uk/dvla: The dvla website didn't have as much information as most of the websites that I have looked at, The webpage was relatively small and the writing was also small, but, But It did have an online login which would hint that you could pay over the website, this is why I put this as the top on the online bookings.

 

www.hmrc.gov.uk: Finally HMRC was not all too easy to understand, it was relatively convoluted at some parts. The writing was a bit small but it becomes easy to read once zoomed in. This website didn't have much information but it did have a method of online payment. This is why I put this as the top of online payments and bookings.