Digital government for a more strategic public administration in Spain

This chapter focuses on the progress and remaining challenges of the role of digital government for a strategically more efficient public administration in Spain. Information and communications technology (ICT) carry a vast potential to a more inclusive, transparent and secure public sector, thereby improving the access and use of government data and information. The chapter finds that even though the public administration reform carried out in-depth reforms to clarify and strengthen the ICT governance framework, data and information should be reinforced across the administration to improve internal efficiency and eventually develop a “data-driven public sector”