European Development towards Online One-stop Government: The “eGOV” Project

E-Government reflects the ultimate visions for public administrations to undergo a huge modernization and reorganization. To speed up innovative developments, the European Commission has provided substantial funding. eGOV is such an EC-funded project that aims at developing an integrated platform for realizing online one-stop Government. Key innovations of eGOV are: a global access point to enter different governmental services and information at distinct levels of public administration and with different devices; the development of one-stop Government process models implemented in local Service Repositories; and a Governmental Markup Language as an open standard for data exchange and communication within the