There is a classic management book called Re-engineering the corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy. When I first read it, I thought that there should be a book about re-engineering the government.

Today of course transformation of governments is a big theme.

But where to start that reorganization from?
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Since I first got involved with eGovernment projects in the mid-nineties I have been encouraging governments that I have been working with to look towards international standards as a route to solving system interconnect challenges, an important step on the path to providing more predictable and useful services to the citizens and businesses that they work with.

More recently, along with everybody else in my field, I have found myself increasingly involved in eGovernment projects that are using Web2.0 technologies (sometimes called Gov2.0) to improve the way that they work with their constituents.
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One of the barriers to the adoption of eHealth is the adoption of standards. And there are in turn unending barriers to the adoption of standards: legal, cultural, administrative, financial, organizational, and of course technical constraints not to omit the lack of incentives. Hence an interesting Norwegian paper by Riita Hellmann which speaks of “ubiquitous heterogeneity.”
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