| The main objective of this work has been the development I-eGS, a framework for the integration of e-government services, and with the ultimate goal of making them ubiquitously accessible to citizens. The system is a Web-based application, hence allowing any interaction with users through the Web. Users of the system will be the government agencies that register and maintain services, and the citizens that request services. Government agencies themselves will easily register new services (by providing the corresponding WSDL file) and combine any number of existing services to create new ones. Each single government service is assumed to be realizable through a specialized web service. Such web service is assumed to be maintained by the particular agency that is primarily responsible for that particular government service. The citizen is then able to smoothly access the services through a Web-portal without having to be concerned as of which agencies need to submit particular approvals or certifications that may also be required prior to the final completion of the one being requested. It also simplifies the effort to request a service by requiring only minimum personal data, and avoiding replication of the data entry effort whenever the same data is needed by several of the agencies that may be involved in granting the service. The current version of the system, and hence this project, has focused in services to grant government certifications to citizens and which may involve several agencies. |
