The scheme will see Jobcentres across the UK going online to connect the unemployed to jobs at the touch of button.

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There are also plans to extend the £18m project to personal home computers and computers in libraries, colleges and community centres.

The scheme, launched by Chancellor Gordon Brown and Employment Minister Andrew Smith at Brixton Jobcentre in south London will also be available as a "job channel" on digital television.

Unemployed people will be able to access the new online jobs network by visiting Jobcentres.

Mr Brown said it would benefit both the jobless and people moving between jobs, and those wanting to return to the labour market.

He said: "Clearly with almost one million vacancies in the economy at the moment there are opportunities for people, particularly people who are unemployed.

"More and more people are coming into Jobcentres and more and more people will have the opportunity to use these modern facilities."

'Government has kept promise'

The project has been funded by the Capital Modernisation Fund, which was set up in the Comprehensive Spending Review to support ways of improving public services.

Mr Brown said that in the future job seekers will be able to post their CVs on the Internet for potential employers to browse.

The Chancellor insisted that the Government had fulfilled its promise to help the unemployed into work through the investment.