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E-Government
The following official government websites were not working at the time of this report: -National Assembly – Parliament (http://www.assembleenationale.ci) -National Bureau of Technical Studies and Development (http://www.bnetd.ci)
In early October 2004, I was invited to a dinner at the embassy of the Ivory Coast. There I met several officials who work for the government, including a man who works at the Office of the Prime Minister. When he gave me his business card, I noticed that his email address was a Yahoo address. Apparently the Office of the Prime Minister does not have its own mail server.
The department of Treasury, has a website (http://www.tresor.gov.ci) that looks very professional and is very informative. It has information about the activities of the Treasury and key indicators about the national economy. The Treasury has done a good job at keeping information on its website up-to-date. Visitors have access to an online newsletter (E-Tresorier) once they fill in a short form that asks for their name, occupation, and email address. The site claims that Ivorian taxpayers will soon have the ability to check their tax information online and make payments to the Treasury right from its website.
The contrast between the website of the Treasury, which is not only working but also kept up-to-date, and those mentioned above, that are not even working, shows that at this point there is no evidence of an e-government initiative at the national level in Cote d’Ivoire.
National ID & National Healthcare
There has been a national ID system since the country became independent in 1960. Any Ivorian citizen 18 years of age or older can obtain one. At this point it seems that the government has not made any use of the database of national IDs beyond statistical studies. National healthcare was one of the projects that President Gbagbo claimed to have as a key project when the civil war broke out in September 1999. The project has been put on hold since then. | |
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Telecommunication Infrastructure Telecom Regulation & Liberalization Computing & Internet Diffusion
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