Nowadays, more and more Pennsylvanians are logging onto state web portals to do the things that have traditionally been done in person in government offices — renewing their vehicle registrations, starting a new business or making a reservation through the state’s park system.
Residents’ increasingly online presence is why Gov. Josh Shapiro announced he’d established the Commonwealth Office of Digital Experience (CODE PA) via executive order on Tuesday. At a press conference, he said the new office was part of a broader aim to make filing permits, applications and other state forms easier. In January, Shapiro also signed an executive order to streamline state government’s licensing, permitting and certification processes.
“We expect to be able to accomplish almost anything in government on our smartphones. And we expect that we can do anything online that we could do if we simply walked into a building,” Shapiro said during Tuesday’s press conference. “And that needs to be true of our Commonwealth’s digital services, too.”
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