1	eGovernment Initiatives in Spain Angel Viña Namur, December 8, 2001
2	eEurope2002 Impact and priorities The communication from the Commission to the Spring European Council in Stockholm, 23-24 March 2001 starts saying: “…To realise the potential of the new economy, there is a need for structural reform. Public administrations often remain too much stuck in traditional ways of working. Modernising the public sector is no longer primarily a matter of introducing new technologies; working practices and rules must be changed to realise the benefits of technology. Governments are slower to get services online, electronic public procurement is not yet a reality more than simply accepting emailed bids (e.g. e-market places are not being used) and public sector information crucial to value-added services is not made readily available in all Member States. Progress has nevertheless been made in some areas, notably in the speed with which the legislative framework for the new economy is being established…”
3	eGovernment in Spain The Central Administration of Spain has started up the Info XXI action plan for the development of the Information Society in Spain. The Info XXI plan responds to the objectives established in the e-Europe initiative, approved in the Extraordinary Council of Lisbon, March of 2000, and with its corresponding action plan approved in Feira, in June of that same year.
4	eGovernment in Spain Within the eGovernment chapter some actions promoted by the the Central Administration for the period 2001-2003 are: Unique Portal of the Administrations To facilitate the access to the information of the Public Administrations (aids, oppositions...) and to gradually extend the number of online transactions, with the possibility of pursuit of the files transacted by the citizens. http://www.administracion.es.
5	eGovernment in Spain Electronic DNI To facilitate a digital identity to all the citizens so that the National Document of Identity can be used to identify them in the physical world as much as the virtual one. CERES project of electronic security To offer security, validity and effectiveness in the communications of the Administration and the public organisms with the citizen, and to each other, through electronic certifications. http://www.cert.fnmt.es.
6	eGovernment in Spain Declarations and payment of taxes by Internet. To extend the possibility of presenting and paying by Internet the practical totality of declarations and taxes: Income Tax Return, VAT, Retentions and Informative Declarations. Almost 400.000 citizens have already made their income tax return this year electronically through Internet. http://www.aeat.es.
7	eGovernment in Galicia The Regional Government of Galicia, the Xunta de Galicia, is very sensitive with the subject of eAdministration not only with a declaration of intentions but with the beginning of real projects in this area. The Xunta de Galicia leads four actions about eAdministration within the actions promoted by the Regional Administration of Galicia in the Info XXI action plan for the period 2001-2003.
8	eGovernment in Galicia Digital Administrative Personality The objective is to gather in an only database of citizens the information and documentation about the citizen that allows him to interact electronically with the Administration, forming his “Digital Administrative Personality”. This supposes as well an important measurement of rationalization of procedures that avoids the reiteration in the document presentation. The first phase of this project that consists of not requesting to the citizen documents that the own Xunta de Galicia generates will be completed during the year 2001.
9	eGovernment in Galicia Electronic Bidding There is a corporative service of publication of information of sheets and contracts in Internet since the year 2000 that has an average of 700 downloads per week. During this year 2001 it will become possible the presentation of supplies by the companies registered in the contractors registry of the Xunta de Galicia. http://www.xunta.es/xeral/index.htm.
10	eGovernment in Galicia Electronic Transaction of Files One example, the electronic management of Industrial Accident and Occupational Disease Reports, is one of the first projects of electronic signature in the Spanish Public Administration in the non tributary scope. 50,000 parts are transacted annually and around a 40% of the parts transacted in the first four months of the 2001 were made by Internet. http://www.xunta.es/xeral/index.htm.
11	eGovernment in Galicia The Portal of the Local Governments of Galicia This project is a pioneering initiative in Galicia and in Spain that allows to establish an electronic communication channel through Internet between the Local Governments of Galicia and the Regional Goverment Xunta de Galicia. The main objective is to make possible that 100% of the transactions between Local and Regional Administration can be made electronically. http://www.eidolocal.es.