From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Mon 22 Sep 2003 - 23:58:48 EDT
Subject: [DW] News - EU Liikanen eGovernment Comments
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An interesting quote near the top from Liikanen ...
From:
http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-
bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=EN_RCN_ID:20906
Liikanen alludes to content of forthcoming eGovernment communication
[Date: 2003-09-17]
Strong political leadership is needed to enable full-scale
implementation of eGovernment, the EU Commissioner for Enterprise and
the Information Society, Erkki Liikanen, has said.
Speaking at the China national school of administration on 16
September, Mr Liikanen said that the benefits of eGovernment are
manifold, describing its implementation as an opportunity not only
'to make governments more relevant to citizens by increasing
participation and involvement in decision-making', but to 'help
public administrations to become more productive and offer
personalised services for all, in an open and transparent way.'
However, some barriers still remain, claimed the Commissioner, noting
that the challenges still facing the implementation of electronic
public services have to be taken up by politicians: 'The politicians
have to keep reminding themselves of the longer-term vision and at
the same time insist on delivering shorter-term concrete results.'
In an effort to help bring about a full scale implementation of
eGovernment within the EU, Mr Liikanen noted that, for its part, the
Commission aims to identify some of the remaining issues to resolve
in its forthcoming communication on eGovernment.
Some of these issues include ensuring inclusive and widespread access
to the Internet so that public services are accessible for all;
safeguarding trust and confidence in online interaction with
governments; making electronic public procurement easier; and
defining, developing and implementing pan-European services and
promoting their use.
'There are further issues, such as interworking of administrations at
all levels for one-stop personalised services,' added the
Commissioner. 'This will require interoperable technical platforms to
be established and government processes that span the boundaries of
organisations and the borders of countries. Some of this
infrastructure for eGovernment is already in place but much more
needs to be done, also in international cooperation.'
Further discussions regarding the international dimension of
eGovernment will be tabled during the World Summit on the Information
Society in Geneva in December.
Category: General policy
Data Source Provider: European Commission
Document Reference: Based on SPEECH/03/410
Subject Index : Coordination, Cooperation; Information Processing,
Information Systems
RCN: 20906
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