Identifying Relevant National E-government Implementations for an Emerging Country: a Selective Survey

E-government initiatives are being carried out by countries all around the world, to provide better services to citizens and business. Chile is not an exception in this trend and its e-government implementation strategy is considering international best practices. This paper presents the main findings of a survey conducted over a sample of ten countries; the purpose was to study their approaches concerning national interoperability frameworks, enterprise architectures frameworks and reference models. The survey identified two main goals behind their initiatives: (1) enable interoperability for public agencies and (2) improve management of the government IT investment portfolio; and revealed two main underlying strategies to achieve such goals, namely: (1) Business-first, which prioritizes enterprise architectures at an early stage, and (2) Technologyfirst, which prioritizes interoperability frameworks first.