Now has 1.4 million acquired digital mailbox, but do we need it? – VG

also Have you also received letters and email to get you to create a digital mailbox? Not everyone is excited about.

the Campaign that started 19. the October has got 300.000 norwegians to create a digital mailbox and so far has 1.4 million people acquired.

– But why in the world are we going to have enough of a portal to communicate with the public and private companies, which are associated with this service?

– It is to collect the important letters from the public and private enterprises in one place. It is impractical to retrieve the letters in 10 different portals, ” says Stig Hornnes, senior adviser at Difi (Agency for public management and EGOVERNMENT), which this autumn has sent out 2.7 million letter where they encourage people to use the service.

But you must not do this.

– It is a voluntary scheme, ” says Hornnes.

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don’t See the point

Hogne Bø Pettersen, the IT-man and a journalist, thinks we do not need such a digital mailbox.

I don’t see the point. There is nothing in the way that the public can’t send you everything you need in Altinn. Digipost is a disturbing tredjeledd. “All” wondering what I’m going with a digital mailbox when I already have Altinn, ” says Pettersen to VG. Read more about what he thinks here.

– Why can’t we just use Altinn as most already have a relationship with through your tax return?

– It is not a mailbox, just a innsendingstjeneste. Altinn could, of course, been developed to take this role, but the Parliament would have a solution which was not only for the public sector and with the two suppliers that could compete, ” says Hornnes at Difi).

Economist and IT-entrepreneur Shahzad Rana believes the current version of the digital mailbox already seems a thing of the past and that it is more beneficial for the public than for the user.

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And unfortunately I have to inform you, as a citizen, I see neither brukerorienteringen or usefulness in the current version of the digital mailbox, he writes on Facebook.

In the initial phase

project Manager and senior adviser Morten Hornnes at Difi).

Photo: DIFI)

In the digital mailbox service, you can get the letter from NAV, the notice to the mammography, the decisions about property taxes and the answers to kreftprøver. Eventually it is intended that all public authorities shall connect to and so far have 250 municipalities have done this. As have some insurance companies and banks.

Those who have a digital mailbox for reading so post more often than if it only is added as a message in your inbox at the bank or the insurance company, ” says Hornnes.

How is it?

to create a digital mailbox and read your mail you must identify yourself with the electronic id. The mailbox will be secure for sending sensitive information. It is the meaning that you should be able to get letters and prøvesvar from your gp here.

You can either select the Danish e-Box or norway Post’s Digipost. They are equal and satisfy both, according to Difi, strict requirements for security.

When it dumps than message into the digital mailbox you will receive information about this either on sms or e-mail.

you Have not opened the letter within a week, you will get a new notice.

In the letters from the public can be a link to their portal, for example NAV. Since you already have identified yourself, you can just click into this and respond.

– the Mailbox is like an intersection, ” says Hornnes.

In the mailbox, you can also collect all the old letters in an archive.

Saves 400 million annually

Difi has estimated that the public sector can save around 400 million in postage and other costs when it has digitized all of their mailings – it will say that they have about three million users over the age of 15.

In addition, saving of course the environment.