Abstract

As information technology becomes more ubiquitous, governments of all levels must keep up with the increasing demand from the citizens. The service, policy and governance issues of this struggle are increasingly well understood. Its technical aspects, however, are often considered to either be a commodity or covered by research in the field of enterprise architecture. Both experience in international cooperation attempts and efforts in coordinating architecture development on the state level, however, indicate that the existing models are not necessarily suitable for inter-enterprise coordination and governance purposes. In this paper we conduct a brief overview of existing literature, outline requirements for a suitable framework, describe such a framework and discuss its application in the context of a small nation of Estonia. Also, scalability concerns of the framework are discussed.