Digital Era Governance: It Corporations, the State, and E-GovernmentGovernment information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them for instance, the UK alone commits 14 billion a year to public sector IT operations. Yet governments do not generally develop or run their own systems, instead relying on private sector computer services providers to run large, long run contracts to