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Memorandum for the National eGovernment Strategy

At its 5th Meeting of the 30th June 2011, the IT Planning Council took the first concrete steps towards the implementation of the National eGovernment Strategy, by publishing a memorandum, which outlines the agreed strategic goals. Their main focus is placed on building a federal infrastructure and aligning individual measurements. According to the memorandum, IT planning envisages the following priorities to be addressed:

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  Transparent government and regulatory actions should be promoted by appropriate measures of information technology and eGovernment.
  
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  Federal and state governments need to adapt to the IT processes and current threats from the Internet constantly. Therefore, minimum uniform standards for communication between government departments should be developed.
  
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  Develop a common eID strategy to enable citizens and businesses to securely transact with the administration over the Internet.
  
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  A federal information management will bring together faster and more efficiently knowledge management to improve public services.
  
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  Sharing initiatives to federal, state and local governments for cost saving in IT infrastructures are in the making.
  
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  The definition of IT security and IT interoperability standards is one of the main tasks of the IT Planning Board.
  
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  The framework for the levels of cross eGovernment should be further developed. The IT planning supports the coordinated activities of the federal and state laws to further adjust the regulatory framework.