eGov Barriers Newsletter 12 published!

Oxford UK: 20th June 2007

The EC Funded project Breaking Barriers to eGovernment: Overcoming obstacles to improving European public services has published Newsletter number 12 dated June 2007.

The topics covered within the newsletter include:

• Project highlights
• eGovernment news
• Interview of the month – Piloting eConsultation in the Irish Parliament
• For your diary
• Get involved! – let us interview you
• About this newsletter

Project highlights

Now available! Breaking Barriers to eGovernment: Online Inventory of Legal and Institutional Issues that are or can become Barriers to eGovernment

The Barriers to eGovernment project team has identified seven key categories of barriers that can block or constrain progress on eGovernment and eight legal foundations that underpin these barriers. The project aims to collect further information about barriers relating to eGovernment from stakeholders. The inventory enables those interested in eGovernment to share experiences and ideas with others working in this area and ensure the research team considers all the key barriers to eGovernment within the project by contributing to the online forum.

Now available! Breaking Barriers to eGovernment: A Legal and Institutional Analysis of Barriers to eGovernment

“A Legal and Institutional Analysis of Barriers to eGovernment” is a progress report on the Breaking the Barriers to eGovernment project. Seven key barrier categories and their legal foundations are explored.

The Barriers to eGovernment portal includes a section relating to the Re-use of Public Sector Information.