Augsburg, April 20, 2009



The German government wants to defuse the economic crisis with IT stimulus packages. The federal government is spending 500 million euros on its IT investment program alone. But are the programs suitable for combating the crisis and do administrations and companies know enough about the programs? The specialist medium eGovernment Computing conducted a survey on the subject.



The results show: Neither companies nor the administrations themselves, are sufficiently informed about the investment programs. Although 60 percent of administrations consider themselves to be well informed, 35 percent feel that they are barely informed. This feeling of uncertainty is even more pronounced among companies. Here, only just over 46% of respondents feel that they are well informed. However, this contrasts with over 42% who describe their level of knowledge as barely informed.



The assessment of IT investment programs is comparable. 35 percent of administrations rate the programs as "good" and 45 percent give them a "sufficient" rating. However, 15 percent believe that the programs are only "inadequate". The programs also met with a similar response from the business community. Over 38% of those surveyed rated them as "good", while almost 31% still consider them to be "sufficient". However, the number of dissatisfied respondents who consider the measures to be "inadequate" has risen to over 19%.



Further information can be found in the current issue of eGovernment and on the homepage www.egovernment-computing.de.



eGovernment Computing is the newspaper for IT-supported local and state administration. It informs IT decision-makers at federal, state and local level and in public institutions about all relevant areas of digital information processing in the public sector. Since 2001, eGovernment Computing has been providing a reliable and complete overview of current technologies, initiatives, trends and specifications that are relevant to the target group's area of investment. It is a product of Vogel Business Media, one of Germany's leading specialist media companies.



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