European E-government projects are best practice exchanges among municipal governments. Arising out of a "national strategy for local e-government, the 22 National Projects offer councils proven, cost effective, standard products, services and implementation roadmaps with which to build effective e-services tailored to their citizens and each council's own unique needs."

Its knowledge pool consisted mostly of ways to enable participatory democracy using e-democracy and more use of information technology to listen to constituents.

The more e-government focused UK local egov product catalogue[https://web.archive.org/web/20050407035520/http://catalogue.localegovnp.org.uk/] "enables users to access and download hundreds of National Project outputs" to "assist with specific Priority Outcomes or Efficiency Review categories.". Its most popular "products" included:

  • redesigning your Intranet
  • business process modelling notation
  • approaches to systems integration

References

  • Local egov national project
  • directgov.gov.uk
  • UK local e-democracy national project
  • UK local democracy project launch