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By Illinois Radio Network/Benjamin Yount
SPRINGFIELD – More and more of Illinois government is moving online.
Gov. Bruce Rauner told the National Governors Association’s Smart States summit this week that the state of Illinois is working smart, not harder.
The governor said that 90 percent of Illinois’ licenses are now online. Eighty-one percent of state agencies have moved to Illinois.gov, and 45 percent of state services can be accessed online.
“We’re pushing to make all of our services platform mobile, so that our citizens can interact with us on mobile phones,” Rauner said. “In the past year our we’ve gone from three percent of the service we provide to 45 percent. We’re going to try and take that to a quantum leap, and try and take that up to 90 [percent] very quickly.”
The governor said the more that Illinois can move online, the cheaper Illinois’ bureaucracy gets.
“We had 420 different systems. We’re consolidating those down into one ERP system,” the governor said. “We believe that’s going to save us $300 million a year when we fully implement that. And we’re well on our way to doing it.”
He said online license applications alone have saved more than a $500,000 a year.