INT/13/001: Centre for Innovation on e-Government Development

01 January 2013

Main Expectations: The project aims at the establishment of a Regional centre for e-Government innovation and various related activities, to be developed in close cooperation with the Colombian Government (MINTIC - ICT Ministry) and UNDP, with the following objectives:
1. To generate and share knowledge about research, trends and good e-Government practices at national, regional and international levels, including a methodology for the identification and management of innovative e-Government knowledge.
2. To support e-Government innovation exercises in public administration institutions.
3. To outline a sustainable model for the systematization of e-Government innovations in the short and médium term. To provide an incentive for the development of an e-Government culture of innovation in Colombia and other countries.
The Centre of Innovation on e-Government Development will have a national, regional and international nature in disseminating all these trends from a Latin American perspective. The Project has been signed in September 2013 until December 2013. The annual budget of US$ 800,000 follows a calendar year but in all likelihood will extended until 2014 and beyond.

Objective/Purpose of Project: To ensure maximum use of Information Technology and Communication in the context of Open Government, in order to contribute to building a more efficient, more transparent and participatory provision of services in collaboration with all levels of society.

Key Accomplishments: Updates on Colombia Project (INT/001/13)
1. Event E-xperience held in Manizales, Colombia, from 12-13 November 2015 counting on over 300 national and international e-government experts.
2. DPADM / UNDESA made a presentation on e-Government as a catalyst to address the Sustainable Development Goals at E-xperience 2015
3. DPADM coordinated the preparation of four state-of-the-art papers on: 1) Institutional frameworks for e-government innovation; 2) Legal frameworks to roll-out the potential of e-Government; 3) e-Government in Caribbean SIDS and 4) e-Government for Sustainable Develolpment. Key regional actors such as IDB and AGESIC (Uruguay, e-Government leader), already praised this initiative.
4. The Colombia ICT Ministry (MINTIC) signed the continuation of the Project until 2018 investing US$ 3.5 M, in cooperation with UNDESA and UNDP.
5. The website of the Centre for Innovation on e-Government was populated with more than 100 cases of e-government innovations and is addressing a new emphasis on e-government in LDCs to address the SDGs.
6. Discussions with MINTIC agreed on new areas to be addressed by the Centre for Innovation on e-Government including: m-Government for poverty reduction in LDCs, lessons learned on e-Government implementation in LDCs to address the SDGs, definition of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to address the SDGs - towards an incremental implementation methodology.
7. According to Colombia Vice-Minister Mejía: "The contributions of the United Nations to the Project are collected and disseminated through the Ministry's Plan Vive Digital, thus allowing us to advance in democratic prosperity through the adoption and use of technology and ICTs".

Cooperation Partners: UNDESA / Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MINTIC) / UNDP-Colombia
Time Frame: September 2013 – November 2015
Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$ 164,189
Division: EGB