More than Digitisation - The Transformative Potential of E-Governance: An Exploratory Case Study

The purpose of this paper is to present our conceptualization of e-governance. With e-governance, we mean the current shifts in the state´s governance mechanisms that are induced by information and communication technology (ICT) along the three major functions of state, namely policy making (political process), regulation and service delivery. In the paper, we describe the current state of our work on the Lausanne Framework, which serves as an evaluation method for e-governance projects. By applying it to an exploratory case study, we first want to demonstrate its usefulness for the understanding of state transformation. And second, we want to outline the transformative potential of e-governance on the state´s systems of rules and regulation.