The Education Secretary of Medellin answered the citizens’ questions during an online chat,. He was chatting from the Pedro Octavio Amado School. The event was well prepared by the teachers and the director of the school. Everybody enjoyed the excellent facilities offered to chat with the community.
More than 40 people throughout the city participated in the chat. It was also the opportunity for the Education Secretary to spread the news about future events for the students and the whole com more...

A global survey of city websites has identified Seoul, South Korea, as the top-ranked city in the performance of municipal e-governance. The research study was conducted jointly by the E-Governance Institute, School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark, USA and the Global e-Policy e-Government Institute at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea.

The survey evaluated websites of municipalities worldwide in terms of privacy, usability, content, service, and citizen more...

The European e-business policies portal, the backbone of the European e-Business Support Network (eBSN) for SMEs, serves as one-stop-shop, on-line environment for all European e-business initiatives, launched by (or in collaboration with) public authorities at national, regional or local level, that aim at promoting the adoption of ICT and e-business among SMEs.

The Government Gateway is an important part of delivering joined-up government. It enables citizens and businesses to communicate and make secure, online transactions with many parts of government from a single point of entry. The Gateway makes e-government a reality: modernising the way that we do business within government. It also allows citizens and businesses to seamlessly interact with government departments and bodies through a variety of diverse channels, services and applications softwa more...

The purpose of the South African Services website is to provide a single source of information about services offered by the South African government. The objective is to reduce the disparity that exists between the empowered and the disempowered, the first and second economies. The website is a critical intervention aimed at ensuring that citizens will be able to interact with government.

The vision is that by the end of 2012, Bihar becomes one of the top five e-Governed, IT-enabled, e-Literate States in the Country and is regarded as a preferred destination for IT businesses and is a major supplier of skilled IT manpower.

Le Département fédéral des finances (DFF) et la Commission des achats de la Confédération (CA) souhaitent encourager systématiquement les achats électroniques (e-procurement) à la Confédération. Il s'agit d'exploiter au mieux les ressources électroniques, Internet notamment, pour aboutir à des processus d'achat efficients et avantageux. Les processus d'achat internes à l'administration fédérale sont concernés, tout comme les transactions intervenant entre les services d'achat et more...

Electronic government refers to public sector use of the Internet and other digital devices to deliver services and information. Although personal computers have been around for several decades, recent advances in networking, video imaging, and graphics interfacing have allowed governments to develop websites that contain a variety of online materials. As discussed in my forthcoming book, Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance (Princeton University Press, 2005), electron more...

In the closing session of the 4th Ministerial eGovernment Conference, José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education stated that eGovernment is a tool for improving social inclusion and to reduce bureaucracy and administrative costs.

During the closing session, the Portuguese minister took stock of the eGovernment measures adopted by the European Union since the signing of the Lisbon Agenda.

The Portuguese minister stated that eGovernment is a tool for improving s more...

IN ONE respect at least, it has been a huge success. Selling new technology to governments has brought private contractors a bonanza of many tens of billions of dollars in the past ten years. Although putting information on the web (call it “i-government”) has worked, our special report shows that “e-government”—using the interactivity and speed of the internet to provide public services—has so far mostly meant high costs and poor returns.

Why is government unable to reap the same more...