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Vincenzo AquaroChief of E-Government Branch – DPADMDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs

United Nations

DPADME-Government Branch

United Nations

Open Government Data ForumApril 28 – 29, 2014 | Ritz Carlton |Abu Dhabi, UAE

http://www.UNPAN.org/DPADM/http://www.unpan.org/dpadm/

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DESA’s Vision and Mission•DESA’s mission is to achieve development for all by helping countries across the globe to meet their economic, social and environmental challenges.

•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.

•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

1.Reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been an integral focus of DESA’s. 2.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 UN – DESA Department of Economic and Social AffairsDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs

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DPADM Vision and MissionDPADMs 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 StrategyThe 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 processes2.Research and Policy Analysis 3.Capacity-building and advisory services

UN – DESA – DPADMUN – DESA – DPADMDivision of Public Administration and Development ManagementDivision of Public Administration and Development Management

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EGB MISSIONSupports 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.

UN – DESA – DPADM – E-Government BranchUN – DESA – DPADM – E-Government BranchDivision for Public Administration and Development ManagementDivision for Public Administration and Development Management

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Comparative Advantage 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 Strategic Framework: A Holistic Approach Approach

Integrating 3 Pillars of EGB’s WorkIntegrating 3 Pillars of EGB’s Work

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UN E-Government SurveyUN E-Government Survey

8th Edition: UN E-Government Survey 2014“E-Government For The Future We Want”

Analysis and Research


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UN E-Government Survey UN E-Government Survey

UN E-Gov Survey adopted by Member States and Economists as a useful tool to benchmark e-Government 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.

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.


6 Themes of the 2014 Survey6 Themes of the 2014 Survey

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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.

E-Government as Enabler for Government Transformation

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,..)


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.



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

2014 Findings: Some considerations for this FORUM

Capacity-Building Activities

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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

2013-2014 - EGB Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building

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UN E-Government SurveyUN E-Government Survey

Trend Lines of Regional and sub-Regional e-Government Development,

2003 - 2014

Analysis and Research

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

• 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 e-government 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 e-government 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 -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 -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

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MENA * - Trend Lines of e-Government Development, 2003 - 2014

* Definition according to World Bank - Link

• MENA countries show a steady and fast growth in their E- Government 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

• 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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