Digitalisation challenges and opportunities for subnational governments

Luiz de Mello and Teresa Ter-Minassian

No 31, OECD Working Papers on Fiscal Federalism from OECD Publishing

Abstract: The world economy and societies are going through a digital transformation that goes well beyond computerisation and use of information and telecommunications technologies. This transformation is creating opportunities and challenges for all levels of government in the areas of tax and expenditure policy and administration, service delivery and fiscal-financial management, and regulatory practices and policies. However, governments (especially sub-national ones, SNGs) often also face shortages of skills, equipment and physical infrastructure, while having to address emerging challenges in cyber security risk management and data protection. The digital transformation calls for cooperation among the different layers of administration in support of effective and efficient digitalisation of SNGs. This paper reviews and discusses these opportunities and challenges.

Keywords: decentralisation; digitalisation; subnational governments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H11 H70 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-04-20
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