Implementing the East African Community EAC eGovernment Observatory Framework

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Implementing the East African Community (EAC)
e-Government Observatory Framework
Assefa Bahta Development Information Services
Division Economic Commission for Africa
16 November 2005 ePol-NET assisting the
implementation of national e-strategies through
the formulation of sectoral and regional
e-strategies in Africa
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• Content
• What is the EAC e-government observatory?
• Objective
• Structure
• Topics
• Services
• Expected Outputs
• Way forward

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What is the EAC e-government observatory?

• a reference information tool on e-Government
  issues and developments across the EAC
• provides the community of e-Government
  decision-makers and professionals with a unique
  set of information resources and with valuable
  insight into e-Government strategies, initiatives
  and projects in EAC and beyond

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Objective

• Developing a Regional e-Government Observatory
  Framework for monitoring and evaluation of
  implementation of e-Government programme in the
  region

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Structure

• The EAC e-Government Committee
• e-Government Showcase Events
• Yearly Regional e-Government Showcase Events
  e-services technologies focused seminars/
  workshops.
• Monthly National e-Government presentations/
  talks Special talks demonstrations and
  presentations.
• Information Dissemination
• e-Government News (by date/country/location/
  topic)
• e-Government Fact sheets
• Publications of Regional e-Government Newsletter
• e-Government Resources repository of essential
  resources including policy papers, official
  reports and independent surveys
• e-Government Portals

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Topics (Based on the draft EAC Regional
e-Government Framework)

• Customs and Immigration
• e-Commerce and e-Tourism
• e-Health
• Meteorological and Tidal Information
• e-Parliament
• e-Banking e-Procurement

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Services

• Provide information about the e-Government
  Observatory
• Allow users to subscribe to the e-Government
  Observatory's news service
• Provide a space for users of the observatory to
  E-mail comments and suggestions

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Expected Outputs

• Indicators
• Benchmarking
• reports

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Way forward

• Identifying the actors in the e-Government
  observatory information flow
• carrying out an assessment of the capability of
  the identified actors
• Creation of a prototype observatory
• Creation of the observatory based on the lessons
  learnt from the prototype observatory
• aligning the Committee overlooking the
  observatory with the main Committee so as to
  avoid duplication of meetings, etc.

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