Focus

e-Citizenship

The Internet has brought tremendous change to Business and Governments are close observers of the evolution of business practises. They see opportunities for modernizing the way they deliver services, as well as facing demands for more flexibility and reactivity from their constituents. Citizens are also benefiting from on-line and electronic services in their daily lives, and they too are asking governments to modernize.

Some early pioneers in this realm have seen promising results, and while the e-government world is still establishing a structure, there is a clear place for ID and the e-ID card in particular as a mean of accessing new services.

This month's focus takes a look at the current state of e-government. If you are involved in e-government programs, we encourage you especially to contact us to receive our White Paper, e-Government 2.0, produced with the support of the World e-Democracy and Electronic Administration Forum in October 2007.

The Road to e-Government

Extract from the 2007 Summer Review magazine.

The European Commission’s strategic policy framework mandates measures to encourage member states to exchange protected data as fluidly as possible.
The program is supporting the development of a framework for the definition of common e-ID standards, including biometrics. More...

Why e-government is going to change our lives?

Extract from an interview in the 2007 Summer Review magazine.

Lawrence Pratchett is Professor of Local Democracy and Director of the Local Governance Research Unit. His research interests are focused around several aspects of local democracy: public participation, e-democracy or comparative local democracy of both and their mutual customers. More...