United Nations
DPADM
E-Government Branch
Vincenzo Aquaro
Chief of E-Government Branch – DPADM
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations
Open Government Data Forum
April 28 – 29, 2014 | Ritz Carlton |Abu Dhabi, UAE
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UN – DESA Department of Economic and Social Affairs
DESA’s Vision and Mission
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DESA’s mission is to achieve development for all by helping countries across
the globe to meet their economic, social and environmental challenges.
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DESA is the lead “author” Department of the UN Secretariat. It produces a host
of flagship publications and major intergovernmental reports, which are
essential to UN negotiations and global policy decisions.
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DESA is known for its first-rate data, including population estimates and
statistics, e-government development long considered global benchmarks of
reliable information.
MDGs and SDGs
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Reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has
been an integral focus of DESA’s.
As the 2015 deadline for achieving the Goals approaches, DESA
is now working with a range of partners to build on the MDGs
and help create a vision for the future that puts people and
planet first. Part of this effort includes:
• following-up on the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development (Rio+20)
• and elaborating a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UN – DESA – DPADM
Division of Public Administration and Development Management
DPADM Vision and Mission
DPADMs Mission is to assists the Member States of the United Nations in fostering
sustainable, efficient, effective, transparent, accountable, clean and citizen-centric
public governance, administration and services through innovation and technology
to achieve the internationally agreed development goals including the MDGs
DPADM’s Strategy
The strategy to achieve the expected accomplishments, with
particular attention to issues of Public Administration, Innovation
and Good Governance in advancing sustainable development, is
based on an integrated approach:
1. Normative work/ Support for intergovernmental
processes
2. Research and Policy Analysis
3. Capacity-building and advisory services
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UN – DESA – DPADM – E-Government Branch
Division for Public Administration and Development Management
EGB MISSION
Supports Member States in developing and least
developed countries to build capacity in the area of
innovation, e/m-governance and transformational
government to promote economic, social and
environmental development, in line with the overall
mandate of UNDESA and the Division’s mission.
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Comparative Advantage
EGB as a Global Convener of Innovative Ideas
and Practices of e-Government and
Innovation
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Strategic Framework: A Holistic
Approach
Integrating 3 Pillars of EGB’s Work
CAPACITY
BUILDING
NORMATIVE
WORK
ANALYSIS AND
RESEARCH
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Analysis and Research
UN E-Government Survey
8th Edition: UN E-Government Survey 2014
“E-Government For The Future We Want”
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UN E-Government Survey
The E-Gov Survey presents a systematic assessment of the use
of ICT to transform and reform the public sector by enhancing
efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, accountability, access to
public services and citizen participation in 193 Countries.
 UN E-Gov Survey adopted by Member States and
Economists as a useful tool to benchmark eGovernment Development
 UN Survey as a tool to guide policies and strategies
on how Member States can overall improve public
service delivery and bridge the digital divide.
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6 Themes of the 2014 Survey
E-Participation
Whole-of-Government
Multi-channel Service Delivery
Expanding Usage
Digital Divide and vulnerable Groups
Open Government Data
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E-Government as Enabler for Government
Transformation
We recognize the power of communications technologies,
including connection technologies and innovative applications, to
promote knowledge exchange, technical cooperation and
capacity-building
for
sustainable
development.
These
technologies and applications can build capacity and enable the
sharing of experiences and knowledge in the different areas of
sustainable development in an open and transparent manner.
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2014 Findings: Key Highlights for E-Government
1. E-Government development can contribute towards the post-2015
development agenda: strengthening national capabilities, regional and
national networks and stronger voice of citizens in global, regional and
local negotiations and policy making.
2. ICTs are effective platforms to facilitate knowledge sharing, skills
development and capacity-building for sustainable development.
3. Effective regional cooperation will help support change programs and
advance e-government development. (Examples: European Union,
African Union’s Programme for Infrastructure Development,..)
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2014 Findings: Key Highlights for E-Government (2)
4. Addressing e-government challenges is often dependent on the
national capacity for change and innovation.
5. Governments across the globe need to undertake a process of
transformative change. E-Government should be seen as a holistic
process to transform government.
6. The transformative changes entail not only the design and
implementation of innovative practices, but more fundamentally a
transformation of government’s role, functions, institutional
frameworks and processes.
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2014 Findings: Some considerations for this FORUM
Governments need to undertake a process of transformative change for
the future that requires to:
 Become catalysts for change instead of mere service providers;
 Become facilitators in promoting networked co-responsibility among all
stakeholders by engaging and empowering communities to take part in
the solution of their own problems;
 Allow for a competitive rather than monopolistic approach to provision
of public goods and services;
 Become entrepreneurial in generating revenues and promoting
partnerships;
 Results-oriented and customer-driven;
 Pro-active instead of reactive, i.e. anticipating problems and acting
preventively;
 Make full use of opportunities afforded by ICTs and e-government
especially from Open Data, Big Data, Social Media and Mobile
 Learn and enhance capacity building through increased knowledge
sharing
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Capacity-Building Activities
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2013-2014 - EGB Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building
Country
Purpose
Accomplishments
Follow-up
Bahrain
Provide e-Government support
and capacity building
Project document to support
Arabic Content Center
Developing Phase II
Brunei
Provide e-Government support
and capacity building
Trained middle and IT Manager in
e-government and Open Data
Training Senior CIO on e-government
Colombia
Support for National Dev. Plan
and e-Gov. Strategy Project
Formulation
Project Design approved by
Government, in Implementation
Project Document Implementation
EGM, Regional e-Gov. Workshop
Costa Rica
Advisory Services to Presidential
Council, METER Workshop
Creation of Presidential
Committee for e-Gov. Project
Document approved
Project Document Signature
Panama
Project Formulation Mission
METER Workshop
U.N. e-Government Survey in
National Development Strategy
Project Document Signature
Qatar
Provide e-Government support
and capacity building
Project Document signed
Second project document sent for
approval
Saudi
Arabia
Provide e-Government support
and capacity building
Project document drafted
Project document with government for
approval
The
Bahamas
Project Formulation Mission
METER Workshop
Project document approved on
Master Plan for e-Government
Preparation of Draft Project Document
United Arab
Emirates
Provide e-Government support
and capacity building
e-Participation policy deployed
MOU drafted for future collaboration
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Analysis and Research
UN E-Government Survey
Trend Lines of Regional and sub-Regional
e-Government Development,
2003 - 2014
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WORLD - Trend Lines of Regional e-government Development, 2003 - 2014
• There remains a wide disparity among Regions in their states
of e-government development.
• Africa faces the greatest challenge, the less steep slope shows
the slowest progression and underlines its lagging position.
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AFRICA – Trend Lines of Sub-Regional e-government Development, 2003 - 2014
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Progress in Africa remains slow and uneven. There has not been
sufficiently significant progress in e-government development.
The regions remain below the world average. Only Northern
Africa is showing a positive growth on its index.
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ASIA - Trend Lines of Sub-regional e-Government Development, 2005 - 2014
The EGDI is particularly low in Southern Asia with a
negative slope indicating an opposite growth in egovernment with respect of the rest of the world.
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EUROPE -
Trend Lines of Sub-Regional e-Government Development 2005 - 2014
Europe continues to be the global leader in egovernment development. Most of the European
Union countries rank high in the e-Government
Development Index.
The concerted and holistic efforts of Europe at both
regional and national levels have helped to consolidate the
position of Europe as the global leader in e-government.
All sub-regions have increased their indexes and are above
the world average.
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Latin America & the Caribbean -
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Trend of Sub Regional EGDI, 2005 -2014
Latin America show a divergence between South & Central and the
Caribbean, with the former improving rapidly.
The E-Government index is particularly low in Central America, with a
lower EGDI than the world average for 2014
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OCEANIA -
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Trend Lines of Sub-Regional e-Government Development, 2005 - 2014
Australia and New Zealand have a strong advance with respect to the region. They also
are economically advanced; whereas the rest of the islands in the region have smaller
economies, populations, and land mass; and thus have fewer resources.
The majority of the other countries in the region, have a law EGDI
Polynesia and Micronesia are growing fast (steep line), leaving Melanesia in the last
position.
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MENA * - Trend Lines of e-Government Development, 2003 - 2014
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* Definition according to World Bank - Link
MENA countries show a steady and fast growth in their EGovernment Index.
These group of countries has an average higher than World
Average for 2014.
MENA has surpassed Asia, Africa and the World EGDI mean
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Gulf Cooperation Council Members (GCC) Trend Lines of e-Government Development, 2003 - 2014
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GCC countries show an extremely fast growth in
their E-Government Index; rapidly catching up
with Europe.
Since 2003, GCC has surpassed Asia and the
World EGDI mean.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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