Goals and scope of study
The state of play report reflects eGovernment research in Europe and globally by providing an overview about current eGovernment research themes, currently running research programs and policies, as well as the existing eGovernment projects on foresight studies and trend analysis.
- To investigate the state of play in eGovernment research, the eGovRTD2020 partners scanned literature and documents available in order to identify:
- current research programs in eGovernment, eGovernment research strategies of the different countries and sources of funds
- current eGovernment policies and strategies in Europe, America and Asia-pacific region relevant for eGovernment research
- main relevant (running and finalized) research projects running around the world
- Collect information about the main eGovernment research all around the world that address foresight and trend analysis
- Preparing them as valuable input for the scenario building, gap analysis and roadmapping
Methodology
Analysis was carried out along four dimensions: ICT related research, government modernization research, esearch in legal groundings and economic issues in Government modernization based on ICT diffusion, and research in society evolution. The relationships and interaction among ICT usage, Government modernization, economic and efficiency as well as the society were also studied.
Details see State of Play report
