eGovernment

Using ICT to improve government efficiency is an essential element in improving the quality of life of citizens and increasing the competitiveness of local firms on the international market.
The big questions are how to share infrastructures, technologies, data, information and processes to break the “knowledge barriers” that fragment public administration into low productivity silos? How to take advantage of Web 2.0 philosophies and architectures in order to move towards a new concept characterised by a bi-directional flow of information and services between government and citizens? How to learn and share the lessons coming from many emerging markets in which often simple and inexpensive initiatives by public/private partnerships enable major advances in human development?