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This document presents highlights of the Metadata Management Survey results. It helps to understand the current state of affairs with regards to Metadata Management in the EU Member States.

While their overall assessment anticipates that humans’ use of the internet will prompt institutional change, many elaborated with written explanations that expressed significant concerns over organization’s resistance to change. They cited fears that bureaucracies of all stripes – especially government agencies – can resist outside encouragement to evolve. Some wrote that the level of change will affect different kinds of institutions at different times. The consensus among them was that businesses will transform themselves much more quickly than public and non-profit agencies.

Many selected the “change” option, but said they were not sure drastic change will occur in organizations by the 2020 time frame. They said the most significant impact of the internet on institutions will occur after that. Some noted this change will cause tension and disruption.

The 2010 United Nations e-Government Survey: Leveraging e-government at a time of financial and economic crisis was completed in December 2009 and launched in early 2010.

The public trust that is gained through transparency can be further enhanced through the free sharing of government data based on open standards.

Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.

First to digitalise – to make Britain the leading superfast broadband

Second to personalise –

Third to economise – in the Pre-Budget Report we set out our determination to find £11 billion of savings by driving up operational efficiency,