Compendium - E-government Innovative Practices

Autor:
United Nations - Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Descripción:
As information and communication technologies are dramatically changing the lives of people around the world, governments must come to grip with finding solutions that will increase public value to their
citizens.
Drawing on the main themes of the UN Global E-government Readiness Reports of 2004 and 2005, the citizen should be viewed as the focal point of e-government activities.
Although, many countries have implemented one-stop portals, online transactions and e-participation possibilities, developing public value in e-government is at the initial stages of conceptualization and implementation. As a result, not all e-solutions and e-services that governments provide necessarily meet the needs of the ordinary citizens.
The main objective of developing the UNDESA Compendium of E-government Practices as an ongoing project is to create a venue for promoting innovative and transferable e-government solutions, services and products developed and yet to be developed by governments. The Compendium also provides South/South and North/South information sharing of their respective experiences and innovative practices. In both cases, the focus is on hastening innovation and creating public value for the citizenry.
As noted in the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2005, advances in ICTs, and high-speed data networks are continuously enhancing the prospects for developing countries, and countries with economies in transition, to participate in the global market for ICT-enabled services on the basis of their comparative advantage. These emerging opportunities provide a powerful commercial basis for ICT infrastructural investment in these countries.
The implementation of an e-government strategy encompasses developing a national strategy, and creating e-solutions, e-services and e-products for the citizen.
The Compendium does not promote one solution over another, but rather exposes e-government practices that place the citizen in the forefront. It contains practices from all regions, while maintaining a geographical distribution. The Compendium embraces any theme that provides public value to the citizen. It covers a wide range of innovative practices, such as creating a government portal, providing critical information on agriculture, sharing HIV/AIDS information, finding an innovative way of doing ecommerce in developing countries, enhancing public/private partnership and facilitating the interaction between government and its citizens.
A number of regional initiatives have embarked on a regional e-government strategy to support their respective citizens, notably, NEPAD in Africa, e-LAC 2007 for Latin America and the Caribbean, and some initiatives in Asia. UNDESA will use these platforms as a foundation in identifying e-government practices that best represent an added benefit to the people. E-government practices should be shared in a user-friendly way. The Compendium serves as an Internet-based vehicle, which can be easily accessed through the Online Network on Public Administration and Finance (UNPAN) portal.

País o Región:
Mundo.

URL:
unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UN/UNPAN022196.pdf

Año:
2005

Editorial:
United Nations publication

Páginas:
194