One-stop portal: Efficiency Unit Head Kitty Choi, Acting Financial Secretary Frederick Ma and Government Chief Information Officer Howard Dickson officiate at GovHK's launch.

Acting Financial Secretary Frederick Ma says the launch of GovHK is a new milestone in the development of e-government services in Hong Kong, marking a new citizen-centric approach in public-service delivery.

Launching the new Government portal today, Mr Ma said it offers one-stop government online information and services to the public.

"To follow through the Government's core value of being 'proactive, pragmatic and always people first', we have designed the content and the features of the new portal from the users' perspectives," Mr Ma said.

GovHK adopts a service clustering approach to help the public access frequently-sought government information and about 1,200 e-government services. Through a user-friendly interface, different information and services are grouped into clusters or subjects for easy access.

The online government services currently offered by the ESDlife will be migrated to GovHK by the expiry of the Government's contract with the operator in January. After the full migration, GovHK will become the single-entry portal for all government information and services.

An exhibition featuring demonstration booths and interactive computer games to showcase the information and services provided by GovHK is being staged at Ocean Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui until Sunday.