OECD Peer Review of E-Government in Denmark - ePractice.eu

organisational culture of the Danish public sector, and of any implications this may have not just for
e-government, but also for wider aspects of government performance in delivering public services.
The Digital Task Force
The Digital Task Force is responsible for improving co-ordination and co-operation on
e-government across levels of government. It is an unusual organisation for Danish government, as it
draws the majority of its staff from State and local government organisations using secondments of
approximately one to two years duration.
Aside from supporting the Joint Board, the role of the Digital Task Force, as outlined in the
current e-government strategy, is to:
• Promote the spread of e-government by providing information on the aims and content of the
e-government strategy.
• Carry out cross-cutting follow-up and co-ordination on behalf of the Board.
• Contribute process skills to projects prioritised by the Board.
• Maintain ongoing monitoring of the need for cross-cutting initiatives, and propose these to
the Board.
• Carry out projects in selected focus and business areas in co-operation with interested
parties.
IT-Policy Centre
The central involvement of the MVTU’s IT-Policy Centre in Project e-Government is intended to
ensure that Danish e-government is based on a robust technical understanding of ICT and the role that
it will play in government in the future. It also ensures continuity of current e-government efforts with
previous work undertaken in the area of government ICT policy. As outlined on the Web site of
Project e-Government, the vision for the IT-Policy Centre is “to be a nationally and internationally
renowned and respected technical competence centre … making sure that the IT policy of the
Government is developed and implemented based on a technically solid and modern basis”.
Other bodies
The work of the Joint Board, Digital Task Force and IT-Policy Centre is augmented by a range of
co-ordinating committees and councils in the area of government-wide ICT, and steering committees
for individual e-government projects. The roles of the most significant of these groups are discussed in
Chapter 6.
Danish e-government efforts are also enabled and supported by other organisations that have
specific roles to play at each level of government, either as co-ordinating bodies for policy
development (e.g. Local Government Denmark at the municipal level), or in implementation of
specific elements of the e-government environment such as the public key infrastructure that has been
put in place under the regulatory oversight of the MVTU’s National IT and Telecom Agency.
Additionally, a good range of e-government co-ordination frameworks have been put in place in
Denmark (again discussed in Chapter 6 on collaboration).
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