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Electronic services and eGovernment in Austria - a road to the top

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An insider’s view on the Austrian E-Government story: According to the last European eGovernment Benchmark Austria is the leading European eGovernment country. This first place is the result of a sophisticated, service-oriented eGovernment strategy and hard work with the restriction of a tight budget. The first part of the presentation will give a short overview of the strategy and the modular Austrian eGovernment model, with a special focus on the various open source reusables, which can be used by any government and private organization throughout the world. The second part will focus on the lessons learned in building an eGovernment strategy for a whole country. 

Alexander Leiningen-westerburg

Born in 1964 in Vienna, he joined Siemens Business Services in 2005 and soon became eGovernment Segment Responsible. For several years he has been lecturing New Media at the Danube University in Krems and at the Paracelsus University in Salzburg. Being charmed by the internet the graduated historian attended the technical postgraduate study of telematic management at the Danube University in the late nineties.. Between 2001 and 2005 he worked for the Austrian Federal Chancellary, specifically in the Austrian ICT Strategy Unit, which was responsible to implement and disseminate eGovernment in Austria. The remarkable success of the unit led to Austrias improvement within the European eGovernment ranking, starting from position 13 ending …
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