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Dutch citizens will get a personalized Internet page giving them access to their records at public institutions and reminding them when to renew important documents, the government said on Friday. The aim is to let citizens and companies, which will also get pages, access their data at any time, and eventually reduce administrative costs. A trial Personal Internet Page (PIP) project will start later this year. Between 10 and 15 government organizations will participate, giving citizens on-line access to their tax information, grants, licences and social security data. The PIP will also remind citizens when to renew their travel documents or driving license, and may show the status of a building permit. Forms can be filled in and submitted on-line, and will re-use standard personal data. No date was given for when pages would be available to all. "It is unclear when the Personal Internet Page will be fully functional, because a comprehensive introduction is a long-term and complex affair," the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Several countries in Europe have put state, regional and local services on the Internet. Denmark even offers citizens a mailbox and a personal digital key to access all public services. Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html For more headline news from Reuters, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html

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