1. Implementing e-gov National / local issues the french case
Copenhague – november 8 , 2002
François Beauvais, Chargé de mission
Délégation interminstérielle à la réforme de l’Etat
Ministère de la fonction publique, de la réforme de l’Etat, et de l’aménagement du territoire

2. Summary The french geographical /political organization
Coordination of e-gov policy
Some areas where common actions are needed
Example of public internet sites : delivering information to the citizen
roles distribution and sharing ressources

3. The French political/geographical organization
There 4 levels of governement in france
National (state) : Gouvernement
Regional government ( 22 regions) : Conseil régional
Sub-regional “departement” (96 departements) : Conseil général
local Communes (36500 communes) Conseil municipal

4. The French political/geographical organization
Each level is responsible for the administration in the domains for that is assigned to it by law.
This means that the national governement cannot give orders to a local government
The national governement have local representatives
in each « departement » (préfet), and in each region (“préfet de region”), which is the head of local branch of national administration

5. Examples of different areas of responsibilities
In the field of public education :
- state government is in charge of the programs and the teachers
- “Region” is responsible for equipments in senior high schools
- “département” is responsible for equipments in junior high schools
- “”communes” are in charge of equipment for elementary schools”

6. Examples of different areas of responsibilities
-“Région”
is mostly in charge of economic developement general infrastructure investments programs (eg railways)
- “Département”
has some special areas of responsibilitys of delivering social aid (this has nothing to do with health insurance and retirement allowances, that are delivered by public organization)

7. Examples of different areas of responsibilities
- “Commune”
area of responsability includes urbanization and most local services
It is in charge of most of the direct relation to the user. Eg : civil register (birth certificate), delivery of ID cards. ‘Most of the procedures delivered by “commune” involves actually state administration)
Most important:The end user often does not make the difference of who eventually delivers the service

8. Coordination of e-gov National/local e-gov situation
To give an overview of the situation of public internet sites in France :
4922 public web sites on 1st oct 2002
among them :
818 are at national level
488 are at regional level
758 are at departemental level
2858 are at local (communal) level

9. Coordination of e-gov Coordination for state governement
3 main bodies are in charge of coordinating e-governement in France
DIRE, COSA, ATICA
Decisions are made in “Interministerial comitees” where each relevant minister is represented, but local governnement are not
These bodies are competent to give prescriptions to autorities belonging to state govt
There is no national board (kind of steering comitee) where local government are represented.

10. Coordination of e-gov What about local? Working groups
There are some institutional associations that represent officially the local governments
Association des maires de France
Assemblée des départements de France
Associations des régions françaises
e-gov issues are also discussed in professional associations or ad hoc groups, set up at a national or regional basis
Working groups
Working groups are organized by state government institution in which representants of local government are invited to participate

11. Some e-gov issues Coordinating public internet sites Civil register
Controlling legal acts of local governements
public procurement
Joined delivered service
(funding associations, building permits...
local service e-card
Inter-operability between national and local IS, of PKI
Etc ...

12. Public internet sites The portal service-public.fr
The portal is the portal for all public services. It give access to all public sites, and not only state government web sites (that is why it ends with .fr and not .gouv.fr
The co-ordination is made by a committee in which the local governments are represented by their “official” associations.
avoiding duplication : citizen guide
In order to avoid duplication of work, every local site is required or advised to make a link to the “guide for rights and procedures” and to the on line forms, instead of writing his own pages

13. Public internet sites “co-marquage”
Going further : sharing the efforts : the co-branding program (co-marquage)
specializing roles
State governments elaborates and distribute state level valid information to the local site
Local government completes with local information (this can be address, schedule of business information, or even special local on line procedure)
Which data
Practical Information of “droits et démarches”
links to other on-line ressources ressources

14. Public internet sites “co-marquage”
Co-marquage : how it works?
What the local site has to do?
Provide a local data base
use the national data
Two option
In house development
National information is delivered free of charge in XML format . Local site needs computer expertise to integrate local data
Use a mutualised platform for on line local data

15. Public internet sites “co-marquage”
Mutualised platform
This can be used by a local governemt form a small fee. It can incorporate local data with national data elaborated at the national level.
This platform is operated by a public company (Caisse des depots et consignations) whose business is to provide services(mainly financial) to local governments.
Benefit for the local site
a platform and data at low cost
Benefit for the user
national and local data together
Exeriementation has been conducted since Sept 2001 and generalization started

16. Co-marquage : the future
This model can be used to deliver further services
eg : a template of an online service available on the platform, that can be used by local sites
delivering of birth certificates