The Governance Framework for E-Government Implementation

The Danish government has focused on the establishment of frameworks and structures to engender collaboration and co-operation across levels of government to foster co-ordination across functional areas and support an efficient and effective development of e-government. Although the current governance frameworks have led to the achievement of considerable e-government progress, it could benefit from further strengthening. Likewise, the continuous involvement and support at the political level would provide visible sponsorship and more direct connection to national priorities to make cross governmental collaboration and co-operation work better. The fragmentation of responsibilities and the absence of a visible champion charged with driving the implementation forward has also resulted in the value and role of e-government and of its strategic and economic advantages for Denmark not being clear to the political leadership. The Structural Reform of the Danish public sector has also contributed to what, at times, seems to be an imbalanced and a limited alignment between the priorities as seen by the central government and those perceived at sub-national levels.