The Role In Enabling Government To Organize And Operate Itself In A More Efficient And Cost Effective Manner By Using The Information Technology

This paper illustrates the value of interoperability in the delivery of Government e-services: Government-to-Government, business-to-Government and citizen-to-Government. It describes the many issues involved in achieving successful interoperability programs - together with the tools, technologies and standards that help make this possible. Government systems are generally purchased on a solution-by-solution basis, and driven by the need to acquire the best solution for a specific purpose. The result of this is the creation of a wide range of separate information and data islands across Government - with no easy way of unlocking the valuable information assets they collectively contain to support more useful and productive processes.