e-Government - a Tool for State Reform (The ADELE Poject)

"Administration Electronique 2004/2007", Paris, is “part of a process where it can be said that everyone wins, from the users to the civil servants and the very economy” of France, “whose competitiveness and control over public expenditure will be globally strengthened, with resources freed up for reallocation to priority areas.” It brings together an interesting array of 140 measures in the e-government action plan for 2004-2007, which involve some 300 new services. The approach is based on a set of principles which “summarise the philosophy underlying the Government's action: simplicity, security, confidentiality and personalisation. The development of e-government, according to the document, “must also enable the people to be more closely involved with defining public policy, and to have a better understanding of the actions of a more transparent administration, thus laying the foundations for a new form of "Digital Republic".

http://www.adae.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/dossierpresse-GB.pdf