Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 14th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VI. Working Group on E-government Author(s) Marton Gellen Ludovika University of Public Service Budapest Hungary Márton Gellén, Róbert Komáromi Title E-Government in Hungary. Efforts, results and opportunities, 2002-2007 File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract E-government has always been a politically contradictious field of the Hungarian Administration. Ambitious movements of the political parties have considered it as a great opportunity to allocate government funds to politically friendly territories however, the elite of the early 1990s was traditionally oriented by individuals having their university degrees in liberal arts and philosophy. Therefore e-government became an incomprehensible mystery for many of the political decision-makers. After the period of the e-government boom (1998-2002) when the main institutions were set and the prestige of the theme became known, the two new governing parties established one e-government institution within the central public administration for both of them. What was the result of this dichotomy? What is the general success rate of the Hungarian e-government projects? What did the Public Administration profit from the Forints spent on e-government? What is the latitude for the next couple of years? How can we manage the challenge of interoperability, transparency and efficiency? These are the questions we attempt to respond in the study that is based on the Hungarian E-Government Strategy, the Action Plan of the E-Government Strategy (both of them published by the Prime Minister’s Office), the empiric research among e-government stakeholders carried out by the Századvég School of Politics Foundation. The study incorporates a comparative study on the results of the e-government efforts within the new EU member states.
