Albania Boosts e-Government Scheme
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has said his government is giving top priority this year to making government services available on the internet.
Dubbing 2008 as "the year of the digital age", Berisha pointed to the implementation of electronic information technology in three new projects as steps in the right direction.
The examples to follow, according to him, were the introduction of a criminal records register, internet access in secondary schools and the newly opened credit registry for Albania’s Central Bank.
Albania remains one of the countries with the lowest penetration of internet usage in Europe, with only 13.1% of the population regularly logging on.
