How to develop an open and flexible information infrastructure for the public sector?

  • Authors:

  • Erik Hornnes;Arild Jansen;øivind Langeland

  • Affiliations:

  • Agency for Public Management and eGovernment, Oslo, Norway;Section for eGovernment, Department for Private Law, University of Oslo, Norway;Agency for Public Management and eGovernment, Oslo, Norway

  • Venue:
  • EGOV'10 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic government
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In line with a number of other countries, Norway has decided to base their ICT solutions in the public sector on a common ICT architecture. This article discusses some challenges related to this work. The theoretical basis for the discussions is our understanding of information infrastructures, which we claim offers a fruitful perspective to the building of ICT architectures. Of particular relevance is its installed base: the history of technical and nontechnical components that determines its further development. We argue that an ICT architecture for the public sector should be seen as an important element of a government information infrastructure. However, it has to be adapted to other principles and fulfil a wider range of needs than traditional types of infrastructures, including the specific political, regulatory and organizational context that it targets