The Almuñécar Town Hall has just announced the imminent arrival of its web-based paperwork system whereby you can make your applications, etc via the Internet, rather than stomping around to the building itself.

Hold your hooves, mind, because first off they must choose an IT company that can install the system which will link all the public offices around the town to one central database, accessible from the official town-hall webpage.

It makes much sense, of course, as nowadays many of us do our shopping online, hold video-conferences with friends and families and God knows how much more via the Internet, so the concept of physically going around to the town-hall building, or any other municipal administrative office, and standing in a queue, waiting to fill in a piece of paper and submit it is archaic, to put it mildly.

Anyway, the necessary aerials will be installed this summer on all the said dependencies so that the info can be passed wirelessly between them. In the meantime, the staff are having courses on how to operate the coming system.

Gazette Readers and users of the official town-hall website will know that certain paperwork can already be carried out, but this new move will be much more extensive in its reach and capacity. A digital ID will also give users access to any document referring to them, for example bills and fines, etc.

Now, if you wouldn’t be seen dead sitting in front of the computer and would prefer to pop around there personally, you still can, even when the new system is up and running, so don’t worry.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)