The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment or DIFI is a government agency

Etat

Etat is a Norwegian state-, county- or municipal agency. An Etat is a subdivision of the administration, which has been given responsibility for a special area. An agency does not have a board of directors, but it does have a director, appointed by the subordinate organization. Normally decisions...

 subordinate the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform

Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform is a Norwegian ministry established in 2006. The ministry is responsible for reform work, information technology, competition policy in addition to having the main responsibility for government employees and government organisation...

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Responsibilities

It is responsible for help the public sector achieve quality, efficiency, user friendlyness, openness and participation, as well as helping the public sector be organized and led in a good way with good intersectoral cooperation. It provides management consulting

Management consulting

Management consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement....

 for the public sector and operates several website

Website

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s on behalf of the Government.

History

The agency was created on January 1, 2008 and is based in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 and Leikanger

Leikanger

is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Leikanger, which is also the administrative center of Sogn og Fjordane county....

. It was created after a merger of Statskonsult

Statskonsult

Statskonsult AS is a defunct Norwegian government-owned company that provided management consulting services related to government restructuring and reform. It was created in 1947 as the Rationalisation Office , later the Directorate of Rationalisation. The name Statskonsult was taken into use in...

, the Norwegian eProcurement Secretariat

Norwegian eProcurement Secretariat

The Norwegian eProcurement Secretariat is a former Norwegian government agency responsible for managing electronic commerce throughout the Government of Norway and other public bodies, in ensure more efficient public procurement. It was created in 2005, but was merged with Norge.no and...

 and Norge.no

Norge.no

Norge.no is a web site operated by Agency for Public Management and eGovernment and provides information for the public by the Government of Norway...

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