Siegfried Reich

HMD eGovernment

March 14th, 2009

Josephine Hofmann of Fraunhofer IAO in Stuttgart and myself just edited an HMD special issue eGovernment. I think the interesting aspects are that

• eGovernment is meanwhile really high up on the political agenda (i2010, national initiatives, etc.)
• hand in hand with the increasing integration of eGovernment applications goes an increase in complexity: besides technical interoperability issues there are various cultural issues (in the EU of 27 countries also with varying standards concerning encryption, etc)
• finally, eGovernment is not just about a more efficient state (or the management thereof). It really is about a new type of interaction between citizens and state. With respect to this we must not forget that still 30% of the population are not online (and due to facts such as age, etc. most probably will never be online).

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