Press Conference on UN World Public Sector Report 2003: E-Government at the Crossroads

Online governments - highly touted at the onset of the Internet revolution - has slipped somewhat from public attention since the end of the dot-com boom and since international security concerns heightened post-September 2001, says the United Nations World Public Sector Report 2003: E-Government at the Crossroads. But governments nevertheless have been scrambling in the meantime to install e-capabilities, with the number using Internet services in some capacity or another increasing from 143 UN Member States in 2001 to 173 (or 91 per cent of all Member States) in 2003.
Left to right: Jerzy Szeremeta, Chief of Knowledge Management Branch of Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and author of the report, Guido Bertucci, Director of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management of Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and Tim Wall, Information Officer of Department of Public Information, at today's press conference.