What are the benefits of the Internet to Government Departments?

Answer 1

Without a more specific question, I believe the answer varies based on what kind of government you're talking about. The internet is really just communication on a massive scale, so if you run a fascist Dictatorship, you probably don't like that your citizens can use the Internet to communicate with one another to disagree with you. Though it's not a fascist dictatorship, China's attempts to control its country's Internet access is a good illustration of this point. In contrast, a government "Of the people, by the people, and for the people" should benefit greatly from the newfound ability of the people to have important instantaneous discussions on a national scale. Recently, the country of Finland declared broadband Internet access to be a fundamental right of its people, so clearly the Internet will only become more important in people's lives as we move into the future. Personally, I'm exasperatedly surprised no one has invented "open source" government yet. I mean think about it--every citizen would have an equal voice, corporations and linguists would be out of the picture, and you could file a bug report whenever you found something that was just plain wrong. Seriously.

Answer 2

Politicians use internet websites, such as facebook during campaigns, to bust up their votes.