ICT usage in municipalities and county authorities (discontinued), 2005

County municipalities spend NOK 342 million on computer equipment, software and related consultancy services. Among these NOK 254.6 million was spend on computer equipment and NOK 87.6 was spend on software and related consultancy services. In total municipalities spend NOK 1 324 million on computer equipment, software and related consultancy services.

About half of the municipalities and county municipalities expect to spend more on software during 2006 than in 2005. Correspondingly 35 per cent of the municipalities and 67 per cent of the county municipalities expect that expenditure on computer equipment shall increase in 2006.

Electronic services

More than 90 per cent of the population lives in a municipality that announce meetings in the local council, publish minutes from these meetings and orientate about local plans through the web. Access to more advanced services are less widespread. 69 per cent of the population lives in a municipality where it is possible to report data electronically through a webform, e.g application to kindergarten.

The number of municipalities that offer services are lower than the part of the population that have access to the same services. This is because it is more common among more populous municipalities to offer services through the web.

In 2005 15 per cent of the population resided in a municipality were more than 70 per cent of all public forms were available for electronic supplementing and reporting. In 2004 3 per cent of the population did have the same access. Some municipalities have not prepared any of their forms for electronic supplementing and reporting. In 2005 12 per cent of the population resided in these municipalities, compared to 16 per cent in 2004.

Tables:

• Table 1 Expenditure on computer equipment, software and related consultancy services in municipalities and county municipalities. 2005. NOK 1 000
• Table 2 Expected changes in expenditure on ICT in 2006 compared to 2005. Share of municipalities and county municipalities distributed on the degree of changes. 2005. Per cent
• Table 3 Share of population with access to different types of services offered by municipalities on Internett. 2005. Per cent
• Table 4 Share of population divided on the extent of available electronic forms in the municipality of residence. 2005. Per cent
• Table 5 Different barriers influence on electronic administration in municipalities. Share of municipalities distributed by the importance of a barrier. 2005. Per cent
• Table 6 Different barriers influence on electronic administration in the county municipalities. Share of county municipalities distributed by the importance of a barrier. 2005. Per cent
• Table 7 Bandwidth out on the network connection to the administration, share of municipalities distributed by bandwidth, county and number of inhabitants. Per cent. 2004-2005
• Table 8 Share of municipalities and county municipalities with a ICT-strategy that are updated within the two last years. 2004 and 2005. Per cent
• Table 9 Share of counties and municipalities with different areas included in a updated ICT-strategy. 2005. Per cent