Resources > e-government

E-government resources from around the world. Note that there's a separate page containing a wide range of e-voting and e-participation links.

e-government - UK

Office of the e-Envoy
The Office of the e-Envoy has been abolished, and replaced by the e-Government Unit of the Cabinet Office.

Directgov
The UK government's latest public information project.

Electronic Government Services for the 21st Century
Prime Minister's Strategy Unit report

eGov Weekly Monitor - a free weekly UK newsletter on ICT in government.

Electronic Government, Information Technologies and the Citizen - a report from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

GovTalk - a Cabinet Office site with e-government standards information.

Headstar e-Government Bulletin - another UK freebie bulletin.

Health Service Journal (HSJ)

IDeA - the Improvement and Development Agency for local government.

Info4local - Inforamtion for local government from central government. Includes extensive information on implementing electronic government.

KableNET - publishers of Government Computing.

Local Government Assocation

PEG - Promoting Electronic Government - the website of this project.

Public Finance magazine (weekly) regularly runs articles on e-government, not just on finance.

SmartGov - Renewing Electronic Government for Improved Service Delivery - a July 2003 publication from my colleagues at iSociety, looking at the past and future of eGoverment.

Society of Information Technology Management (SOCITM).

Web guidelines from the Office of the e-Envoy of public sector websites.

e-government - Europe

e-Forum - a Europe-wide organisation dedicated to encouraging eGovernment innovation in Europe. Includes resource centre and a discussion forum.

e-government - Spain

administracion.es (Spain) - relaunched central government portal.

Administracion.es - ¿El portal del ciudadano? - article by César Martín.

Expertos en accesabilidad piden al portal Administracion.es más claridad
(19 June 2003 - appeared originally in El País, 18 June 2003)

Diseño centrado en el ciudadano: administracion.es - article by Eduardo Manchón (June 2003).

El MAP responde sobre administracion.es - the ministry's reply to criticisms made of the government's main web portal (June 2003).

Spain's government ignores usability advice for portal - October 2002
[summary article on Usability News] [local full version]

e-government - US

e-gov.com - US e-government site.

Center for Democracy and Technology

Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards - section 508 guidance from the US government.

e-government - other international

Australia: eGovernment Resource Centre, Victoria

Bertlesmann Foundation - Balanced e-Government report

Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance

E-government Handbook for Developing Countries (PDF, 3.9MB!) - published by the Center for Democracy and Technology (US).

OECD - includes reports on e-government.

World Bank e-government

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