e-government
An article by business consultancy Accenture on conditions to make e-government work for the service provision, citizen involvement and accountability. Not every flashy new web 2.0 application is really worthwhile.
Did you know that the German government has an "e-government strategy" ... ?
The availability of powerful information technology, an increasing demand for transparent governance have led to impressive advances of e-government and e-participation in the recent years. OpenAid is applying these developments to development cooperation. While transparency is being discussed internationally as an approach to improve aid effectiveness, this issue commands very little attention in the German development community. The official discussion in Germany at the Government level is more dominated by e-government, understood as the availability of online administrative services to the public.
In Germany e-Government has been recognised as an important government task by the German Government since 2000. Read more »