Ontario is making it easier to get information and services online and saving an estimated $1.3 million of taxpayer money over the next two years.

More than 200 websites were reviewed and over 65 sites were selected to be eliminated or merged with other sites by March 2012. Money will be saved through consolidated technology, infrastructure and maintenance costs as result of these changes.

Internal government websites are also being reviewed, beginning with a freeze on developing new ones. Changes underway have already provided over $300,000 in additional savings.

As part of the Open Ontario Plan, the government is committed to providing access to online information such as finding a doctor or registering a birth.  And eliminating waste and finding savings will help protect services in schools and hospitals that are important to Ontario families and help reduce the deficit and eliminate it completely by 2018.