One role of government is to allocate funding for infrastructure or projects that the private sector is unwilling or unable to support. The question is usually where do you draw the line.
For example, the vast majority of road construction is paid for by the government. However, when it comes to longer distance highways, the public sector has learned that motorists are often willing to pay a surcharge to travel on faster modern highways.
How well do the private and public sectors work together in Hungary? What kinds of public funding are able for private sector investments? Next week I’m running an afternoon panel discussion on the topic, in cooperation with the Hungarian Ministry of Informatics and Communications, so please follow the link for further information and be sure to attend.
eGovernment implementation in all European countries is about to create a substantial market for ICT sector companies. Reasons for using ICTs in public sector are numerous. First, governments, at all levels, are urged to cut expenditures in order to reduce fiscal burden while they have to optimise access to information and “customer” care. Thus, governments have faced pressure to improve the professionalism with which government agencies are managed, notably through the use of ICTs.
Although governments seem committed to fulfil the implementation of eGovernment, they still lack accurate strategies to achieve the set-out targets. The first challenge for governments is to solve issues of horizontal fragmentation (policy areas) and vertical regionalization when setting-up eGovernment. Secondly, as governments are under constant pressure to reduce their expenditure, they often shift in favour of implementing open source software.
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Thursday, Apr 6, is the last day that interested parties may submit applications for .eu domain names under the Sunrise Rules. During the Sunrise periods (starting 7 December 2005), domains were made available only to the holders of prior rights (state institutions, registered trade marks holders etc.) backing up their claim with documentary evidence.
The current results (updated every 15 minutes) show the Dutchs and Czechs (taken into account their country size and populations) go crazy for registering the .EU domains. The most have come from Germany (29%), Netherlands (17%) and France (11%). The Czech organisations have submitted the ninth highest number of applications (almost 10,000 what represents about 3% of all). Other new member states can be found as 12th Poland (1.4%), 15th Hungary (0.7%), 19th Slovakia, 20th Slovenia and 22nd Estonia. The numbers of accepted applications are about six time smaller (so far) nevertheless the country shares do not differ much.
The Land Rush period is starting on the 7th April 2006 at 11:00 am and the free domain names will be available to registration for all. Have you already chosen your registrar?
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