Government
Help solve the centralization/decentralization problem, by making relevant data easily accessible at all government levels; facilitating budget analysis and programming; improving the timeliness of budget information. Lower administrative costs; enable appropriate responses to requests and queries; provide access to all departments and levels of government; foster a better governance capability, and facilitate the government-to-business interface. Help simplify bureaucracy; break down barriers between functional domains; allow public services to be reoriented to solving clients’ problems; develop new forms for citizen participation; make government more accountable. Enable governments and government departments to integrate information; information trading may be used as a public service.