Preserving Privacy of Integrated EGovernment Information: Architecture Approach Governments often begin their egovernment initiatives by automating their services. Service automation requires integrating different information from various government entities to make the eservices more effective, efficient, and accessible. This enables government entities to integrate their data through electronic channels that are not restricted by time or locations, which may lead to privacy breach or misuse during information exchange. On the other hand, many government regulators have begun to enact some data protection regulations by forcing service providers to embed privacy into the design specifications and architecture of the integrated services to make it as a key enabling factor for data protection. This study investigates the challenges to design an egovernment architecture using the optimal business tool together with the most efficient service design approach where it can protect privacy from misuse. From a privacy perspective, the main contributions of this study are to identify reasonable requirements for protecting privacy, to determine the best method that can align the business logic with the technical approaches, and to propose a privacy architecture approach based on aligned tools. Thus, the purpose of this study is to find the optimal method to protect integrated egovernment information from an architecture point of view. Therefore, the study is driven by the importance of achieving a trustworthy egovernment initiative.

Towards a states digital transformation centered in public values through enterprise architecture The administration of the state is carried out by institutions whose mission is to generate public value, typically defined as the collective expectations of citizens regarding the State and its services. Technological advancement has changed the expectations of citizens, promoting programs worldwide to modernize the states through digital transformation. Unfortunately, digital transformation initiatives are not ensuring the balance between the public value derived from the mission of the institution and other public values such as government efficiency. In this work, we propose a framework to direct the digital transformation based on enterprise architecture that aligns and balances the requirements of the digital transformation to all public values that the state entrusts to an institution. We present a case to illustrate that our proposal mitigates the risk of directing and measuring the success of digital transformation based on isolated public values.