The history of the future: Changes in Danish e-government strategies 1994-2010

This article presents an historical account of the governing principles of e-government in Denmark from 1994 to present day. With a point of some policy analytical themes and with empirical data retrieved from elite interviews and official documents, we are presenting the history of the governing of e-government. Based on notions such as e.g. centralising-decentralising; bureaucracy-networks we are able to find patterns of continuity and change. From being a small part of a national Information Society strategy in the early 1990s, in which the actors were supposed to be guided by visions based on certain „Danish values‟, the policy domain has in the 00s increasingly become subject to traditional hierarchical control, which has resulted in a more coercive integration of government information systems.