The Relationship Between E-Government And The Digitalization Opportunities Offered By The Ict Sector: An Analysis At The Level Of The Member Countries Of The European Union And The Eea

The research presented in this article had as objectives carrying out a review of the specialized literature in the field of E-government and the opportunities of digitization from the perspective of the IC&T sector, the study of the relations between E-governance (expressed as activities via websites) and the evolution of the IC&T sector and analysis of the obtained results, verification of the confirmation of the formulated hypotheses and contextualization of the results by referring to other results obtained in the specialized literature. To highlight the relationship between E-government and the digitalization opportunities offered by the evolution of the IC&T sector, correlation analyzes were carried out using the secondary data made available by the Eurostat databases. Three research hypotheses were formulated and the first research hypothesis, the one regarding a strong positive relationship between E-governance and the number of enterprises active in IC&T, is validated in the case of most European countries. The other two research hypotheses, regarding a strong positive relationship between E-governance and the number of enterprises active in IC&T and also a positive and close relationship between E-governance and the share of IC&T staff in total employees, have been confirmed only in the case of fewer European countries.