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David Fletcher writes about Accenture’s 2003 eGov survey. Denmark has is now 4th on the maturity rank, after Canada, Singapore, and the US. That’s one step up from last year.

It is very strange, but MovableType simply resists to make a clickable link to the Accenture report! Instead, it spits out Internal Error. I first thought it was my templates that are getting too heavy, but it still just wont post the link. Very strange. I’m sure there’s a logical explanation (is it too long an URL? nah?) Of course, as Stepan points out, it’s the TrackBack auto discovery that chokes on the 3MB-file. Switching it off for this message.

“Enterprise architecture in e-government – Northern perspectives” is the title of a workshop we are arranging on 24-25 April 2003 in Copenhagen. From the invitation letter:

The Danish Government is working on a white paper about a national framework for enterprise architecture. This white paper will be launched in the near future, and as part of the “next step”, we want to invite a number of our international colleagues to Wonderful Copenhagen, not only to enjoy the spring with us, but also to share experiences and ideas.

We have invited one of the world’s leading experts on enterprise architecture in government, Brian Burke of Meta Group. He will deliver the opening keynote presentation on the workshop. The rest of the workshop will be focused on selected themes in eGovernment, illustrated with cases, presented by the participants, and discussed in interactive sessions. The last session on the workshop will be a discussion of “next steps”, with identification of possible areas of cooperation or exchange of experiences.

We will set the final agenda based on the participants’ wishes and inputs. Our initial list of themes looks like this:

• Drivers and barriers for eGovernment
• Enterprise architecture in practice
• Governance models for public sector IT
• Common Infrastructure Projects in the public sector
• Patterns of a lean and mean government machine 😉

Interested? Let me know.

Phil points to some white papers developed for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office (FEA-PMO) by the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) Enterprise Architecture SIG. The white papers are: Advancing Enterprise Architecture Maturity (PDF), Business Line Architecture & Integration (PDF), Interoperability Strategy – Concepts, Challenges, and Recommendations (PDF) and Succeeding with Component-Based Architecture in e-Government (PDF)

Those Danes waiting for our national white paper on IT architecture, as well as anyone else waiting for the English translation, must wait a while longer. It’s being lifted to a higher political level than we first expected.

Edwin Lau and The E-Government Task Force and the OECD E-Government Working Group has a new E-Government Imperative Policy Brief which summarises the main findings of the OECD Flagship Report on EGovernment.

The Policy Brief highlights policy lessons from current experience in OECD member countries and suggests 10 guiding principles for successful e-government implementation:
1 Leadership and Commitment
2 Integration
3 Inter-agency collaboration
4 Financing
5 Access
6 Choice
7 Citizen engagement
8 Privacy
9 Accountability
10 Monitoring and evaluation

A random quote:

In many OECD countries, existing budgetary arrangements act against efficient e-government by funding through traditional government silos, and by not recognising ICT expenditure as an investment. Organisations need incentives for cross-organisational projects and tools for measur-ing returns on investment. This can be achieved through a government-wide approach to the assessment of e-government benefits and the sharing of savings.