A MyGov dashboard that allows every citizen to personalise the explosive growth of government services on the web was proposed today by Gordon Brown.

The prime minister suggested a new wave of web technology will open up policy-making, ending the current paternalistic Whitehall monopoly.

In a wide-ranging speech on the impact of the web on the government, he said the MyGov dashboard will make citizen interaction with government as easy as internet banking or online shopping.

Instead of civil servants or politicians being the sole authors of government information, he claimed that open source information will allow citizens to shape information for their own needs.

Brown said MyGov, which will eventually replace DirectGov, will end the current frustration of web users needing to identify themselves separately for different public services. He also said the dashboard will allow the citizen to manage their pensions, tax credits and child benefits, as well as pay council tax, fix doctors or hospital appointments, apply for schools of their choice and communicate with children's teachers.

Brown, who was once described as an analogue politician in an internet age, praised the development of an Asborometer by software developer Jeff Gilfelt. The iPhone app allows users to locate the level of antisocial behaviour in a borough, including the number of crack houses closed, asbo statistics and area league tables.

Brown promised that all public service contracts worth more than £20,000 will be provided on a free online database. In addition to this, Martha Lane Fox, the co-founder of lastminute.com, will extend her brief from championing digital inclusion, to overseeing the spread of government data to citizens.

Brown said that by the autumn, the government will publish all non-personal datasets held by departments and quangos, forming an electronic doomsday book for the 21st century. He said the book will allow for the first time, the public to access in one place information in each set of data, including its size, source, format, content, timeliness, cost and quality. He said any business or developer will be free to develop the information as they please. Brown also promised £30m worth of funding to create an Institute of Web Science, which will work on the economic and social benefits of the web.

Likening the second wave of superfast broadband to the advent of electricity, Brown insisted that unlike the Conservatives, Labour were investing in digital infrastructure to ensure it was available to 90% of the public. He did not set a date, but has previously said a 50Mbps network will be available by 2017, partly paid for by the new 50p tax on phonelines.

The Tories would use a combination of deregulation and a portion of the BBC licence fee to create a 100Mbps network.