The automatic filling and assessment of individual’s income tax return enables the tax return to be delivered in a simple, convenient and timely manner, as it exempts the taxpayer from any interaction except the confirmation of the pre-filled values.
The tax return is fully filled out by Tax Administration with the data gathered (income and expenses) from third parties information (employers, businesses, banks, etc.) and from the individual elements declared by the taxpayer in the previous…
Innovation Tag: Public Service Delivery
The Free Education platform is an open and collaborative learning space that seeks to awake the interest of Brazilian youth in their personal and professional development. It is a free, open platform, and its practical, interactive content is especially directed at lower income youths (between the ages of 16-24), that have not completed high school and do not have the necessary skills to find employment or interest in continuing their studies through formal education.
Many years of Australian debate and public division around same sex marriage culminated in a single, nation-wide postal survey. The Australian Bureau of Statistics was given only 99 days to prepare, conduct and release the results of a survey of Australia’s 16 million enrolled voters. An amazing 80% of citizens participated in this voluntary survey, enabled by innovative project management and customer-centric service delivery. The project was delivered for 2/3 of its budget, a $40m saving.
GovTech Poland is a completely new way of bringing innovations to the public sector. We have set out to define new procurement rules, set standards and build bridges between innovators and officials. Organising competitions, workshops, and introducing new digital solutions ourselves, our objective is to make the administration an agile, responsible partner for SME's and startups.
Service shop, developed by the municipality of Larvik:
- is an online booking and calendar solution that allows service recipients to determine the time of receiving municipal services based on the recipients own calender and wishes
- is a secure solution that takes care of the privacy of the service recipients
- makes it easier for the employees to plan their days, the service order automatically generates employee workflow.
The decease of a relative is a very tough and sensitive moment. What if a simpler, more comprehensive and especially a more humane service was available, helping the citizen to solve the main issues this situation involves? Using research and experimentation, the death and bereavement service was successfully tested and is becoming a reality as an integrated, one-stop solution.
A customer-friendly emergency service model from Finland where the public can find all the assistance they need at one point of service, instead of across several sites. In addition to somatic emergency services, psychiatry, substance abuse and violence prevention, crisis and social work, and child protection are available. The interprofessional model means collaboration towards a shared goal. The operational model, available anywhere in the world, improves emergency services.
The Model Hospital allows trusts across the NHS in England to benchmark their productivity and identify areas to improve across the range of services they delive. For the first time, it provides data on productivity, performance and quality in the same place,
highlighting opportunities to improve productivity and reduce variation. The Model Hospital leverages the power of benchmarking to provide concise, insightful, actionable strategic information to support trusts to improve care for patients.
More than 150,000 Togolese have downloaded the SOS Systems application, which helps precisely locate the place of occurrence of a disaster, can identify the health history of an unconscious victim by scanning the QR code of the bracelet, and shares daily health tips and tricks.
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) introduced the online application system in 2015. The Admissions Application Online System was introduced to ensure that the Department has all information relating to admissions in a central repository for planning and reporting purposes.