Deutschland ist führend beim Einsatz von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien für kommerzielle Zwecke. Schlechte Noten erhielt dagegen die Bundesregierung beim E-Governement.
Imagine. An Internet portal that would let citizens pay parking tickets and property taxes online. The ease. The convenience. Sounds like 2000? Startup.com, a 2001 documentary, chronicled the swift rise and messy crash of GovWorks.com. But the filmmakers could have focused their cameras on any of several e-government dot-coms that burned through a wad of venture capital only to flame out a couple of years later.