Norge.no is a

web guide A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displayin ...

for citizens to online public services in Norway. The web portal has information about how citizens can communicate digitally with public authorities, log into public services and choose a digital mailbox. The portal has information in Norwegian (bokmål and nynorsk) and in English. The web portal is operated by

Agency for Public Management and eGovernment The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment ( no, Direktoratet for forvaltning og ikt) or Difi is a etat, government agency subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform. Responsibilities It is responsible for ...

(Difi) which is subordinate to the

Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian m ...

History

The web portal www.norge.no was launched 24 January 2000 as part of a government initiative in cooperation with the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS). The portal was designed to give citizens and public sector employees a comprehensive view of public administration in Norway. The portal's editing team was located in Leikanger, Sogn og Fjordane. On 1 January 2002, Opplysningstjenesten i staten, a help desk service, was merged with the portal service www.norge.no to form Norge.no - the official gateway to public services and information. On 3 June 2004, and English version of the portal, www.norway.no, was launched. Initially, Norway.no was a project run by the Office of the County Governor in

Sogn og Fjordane Sogn og Fjordane (; English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was, up to 1 January 2020, a county in western Norway, when it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland, the c ...

. Then, on 1 January 2005, Norway.no was reorganised as a public agency, Norge.no, subordinate to the

Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs (FAD) ( no, Fornyings-, administrasjons- og kirkedepartementet) was a Norwegian ministry. It was established as the Ministry of Government Administration and Ref ...

. In addition to running the portal and help desk, Norge.no the agency was responsible for developing quality assessment criteria for evaluating public web sites. It was also responsible for developing and running the online one-stop shop for public digital services, Minside (MyPage). On 1 January 2008, Norway.no was merged with two other public agencies,

Statskonsult Statskonsult AS is a defunct Norwegian government-owned company that provided management consulting services related to government restructuring and reform. It was created in 1947 as the Rationalisation Office ( no, Rasjonaliseringskontoret), la ...

and the

Norwegian eProcurement Secretariat The Norwegian eProcurement Secretariat ( no, E-handelssekretariatet) was a Norwegian government agency responsible for managing electronic commerce throughout the Government of Norway and other public bodies. The agency's two primary goals were to i ...

, to form the

(Difi). On 31 May 2012, the one-stop shop for public digital services, Minside, was closed down Most of the content from Minside was made available via the Norge.no portal. On 18 March 2013, the Norge.no portal was reinvented as a catalogue of public digital services from the Norwegian public sector. The portal's help desk was closed down on the same date. On 15 January 2015, a new version of Norge.no was launched. It is a guide to digital public services from public authorities in Norway. Norge.no is the main channel for the Norwegian government to inform citizens on how they can become digital citizens; how they can communicate digitally with public authorities in Norway, and how to set up a digital mailbox account.

External links

www.norge.no

www.noreg.no

www.norge.no/en
{{in lang, en Defunct government agencies of Norway Government agencies established in 2005 Organizations disestablished in 2007 Organisations based in Sogn og Fjordane Norwegian websites 2000 establishments in Norway 2005 establishments in Norway