21 March 2007

It is important that authorities provide accessibility to get on "the road to success", the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has claimed.

The remarks came in a report for the European Symposium on e-Government which was held on February 1st and 2nd with the aim of identifying the risks to web interoperability and potential for more efficient online service delivery.

In addition to accessibility, issues such as privacy, identity theft and best practice were all discussed.

A conclusion in the report read: "e-Government should consider W3C technologies as a toolbox including solutions for privacy, accessibility, quality, security and semantic treatment of data."

In addition, the document recommended at the W3C must help the government bodies to achieve accessibility by close cooperation in future.

Prior to the symposium, the W3C said that citizens were "eager" for e-government to become more widespread, as there is a great desire to conduct a wide range of services online.

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