Electronic access saves one million paper copies

Modernisation and simplification procedures undertaken by the Junta de Andalucia have resulted in the issuing by electronic means of 820,000 DNI certificates and 190,000 certificates of registration, thus negating the need to present over a million paper copies of these documents.

Back to the carrier pigeon?

The idea started when a worker at Unlimited IT in Durban, South Africa, complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL broadband, commenting that it would be faster by carrier pigeon. Enter Winston, an eleven month old pigeon. Armed with a 4 gigabyte memory stick, Winston took on South Africa’s biggest web firm, Telkom. The race had strict rules, …