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What is the Inventory?

The Barriers to eGovernment project team has identified seven key categories of barriers that can block or constrain progress on eGovernment: leadership failures; financial inhibitors; digital divides and choices; poor coordination; workplace and organizational inflexibility; lack of trust; and poor technical design. The project aims to collect and disseminate further information about barriers relating to eGovernment from stakeholders. We have created an online inventory for this purpose.

How does it work?

The inventory provides a summary of the seven barrier categories. The inventory enabled those interested in eGovernment to share experiences and ideas with others working in this area and ensure the research team considered all the key barriers to eGovernment within the project.

Why?

The Inventory facilitates a better cross-European understanding of barriers facing eGovernment and how to overcome them.

The Inventory will facilitate a better cross-European understanding of barriers facing eGovernment and how to overcome them.

Breaking Barriers to eGovernment

Overcoming obstacles to improving European public services

Funded by the European Commission Led by the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University

The European Commission funded a three year project to investigate the legal, organisational, technological and other barriers to expanding effective eGovernment services using the Internet and to define possible solutions at a European level to overcome such obstacles.

The project is led by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), a multidisciplinary department at the University of Oxford studying the Internet and society. Its project partners are:

• Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit (CRID), University of Namur, Belgium
• Gov 3 Ltd, an eGovernment Consultancy
• Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), University of Tilburg, Netherlands
• Department of Administrative Law, University of Murcia, Spain

The project team have undertaken in-depth case studies, an online survey, reviews of other work in this field and engaged closely with many leading experts, practitioners and other eGovernment stakeholders in order to comprehensively identify and explore the key barriers to eGovernment and their legal underpinnings; and to propose solutions to these obstacles.

As a result of this work a number of resources including newsletters, workshop reports, summary leaflets and research reports have been produced by the project team. The three key outputs from this project are:

• A Legal and Institutional Analysis of Barriers to eGovernment (deliverable 1b)
• Breaking Barriers to eGovernment: a Case Study Report (deliverable 2)
• Solutions for eGovernment (deliverable 3).

To view these reports and other project deliverables please see: http://www.egovbarriers.org/?view=project_outputs