E-governement

Is also known as Elctronic-governement. This refers to the use of information technology to exchange information and services with citizens, businesses, health an other arms of government. E-government describes the use of technologies to facilitate the operation of government and the disbursement of government information and services. E-government deals heavily with Internet and non-internet applications to aid in governments. Before E-government was introduced, taxes and other bills were paid through licenses. The primarily delivery models are Government-citizens or government to customers, government to business, government to government and government to employee

The main focus for all government services is DirectGov. Direct Gov is the UK government digital services for people in the United Kingdom, providing a single point of access to public sector information and services. Direct gov which was formed in 2004 has over 300,000visit a month to over 10,000,000 and it involves 18 government departments. Such as

Education and learning
Environment and green living Health
Well being
Employment
Money tax and benefits etc.

E-government is gone online because the government considered it cheaper than employing people and paying wages, also you will find there are computers in every public library. This allows a much larger amount of viewers to this site.

Advantage of E-government
The main advantage of an e-government is that it improves the efficiency of the current system. That in turn saves money and tie.
Moving away from a heavily paper based system to an electronic system would reduce the need for manpower. Thus, this would allow the process to be handled by lesser employees and therefore reduce operation cost.
The society is moving towards the mobile connections. The ability of an e-government service to be accessible to citizens irrespective of location throughout the country brings the next and potentially biggest benefit of an e-government service.
Online transactions are faster than face-to-face transactions. Paper processing is automated, reducing time and the risk of clerical errors. This allows state agencies to focus on providing better service for the customer.
Environmentalists might argue that E government is a good idea because it means that they don't have to waste paper in order to get information they can just let the person go online and give it that way.
Not all decisions are made between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. during a weekday. If you are looking for a house, you may want information about an area during a weekend. E-government gives you 24-hour access to this and other information
Broadens public participation

Disadvantages of E-government


Web site cost: building a maintaining governmental websites can require a lot of time and money. Apart from the technical cost, there are also important human resources cost: any existing or new staff working on the web must be trained both on technical and communicational aspect.

Publishing information of legal values or granting access to information databases through a website can pose a security danger to the government organisation as malicious users (hackers) can break into a website via internet.

E Government does have its draw backs for example in the future citizens might be told to communicate with their Government via the internet and this would mean that a lot of information that the citizens have given online could be exploited which means a lot of peoples information will be in the hands of the Government and this would mean that people have no personal privacy which is not a good thing and I am sure that a lot of people would be reluctant to give there information online.

 I personally don't use any of these  website services  neither do my parents. they prefer paying through a local shop.But my borough council  website provides  provides information relating relating to Tunbridgewells borough. which includes
Telephone payment
council taxes
mortagages