CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTIVE OF E-GOVERNANCE IN HUNGARY

Abstract

It is an acknowledged fact that Corporate e-Governance is an imperative in today’s complex business world. Modern ICT offers a whole range of opportunities and, at the same, imposes all kind of challenges to be faced by professional communities such as the surveyors. This relates especially to areas such e-Governance, Knowledge Management, and e-Learning. These areas interact and respond mutually. Governance refers to the manner in which power is exercised by governments in managing a country’s social, economic, and spatial recourses. It simply means: the process of decision making and the process by which decisions are implemented. This indicates that government is just one of the actors in governance. The concept of governance includes formal as well as informal actors involved in decision-making and implementation of decisions made, and the formal and informal structures that have been set in place to arrive at and implement the decision. The Government of Hungary recognized the need to introduce e-Governance in its effort to optimize governmental operations and increase efficiency, and has made this initiative one of the cornerstones of the comprehensive modernization program under consideration and already partially under way. In the given paper, we focus on the challenges and prospective of e-Governance in Hungary

Keywords

• e-Governance1, Knowledge Management2, e-Learning3

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