Globalization of e-government

What is it about?

This paper claims to be both as an agenda-setting article and a review of international collaborative efforts in promoting e-government as a universal value. The author argues that e-government agenda in international arena suffers from its overgeneralization as a tool to achieve better governance which does not take into account heterogeneous political and institutional environments in different countries, and various disparities in harmonization of realization procedures on a global scale.

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Why is it important?

This paper presents a retrospective analysis of the global collaborative efforts in promotion of e-government values from the perspective of unification of the realization procedures. Although none of the conclusions found in the paper in setting e-government as a global agenda is presented as reasons for avoiding international cooperation in promotion of the idea, the analysis of the current developments shows that despite impressive achievements of collaborative efforts in this direction which eventually finalized in the Open Government Partnership, further progress will require solution of many challenges, in particular, mitigating the effects of the global digital divide, harmonization of corresponding legislation and realization procedures all over the world, the project outreach, and at last developing a robust e-government terminology and paradigm.

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