Bhutan e-Government Master Plan 3.4.5 Whole-of-Government Shared Services A whole-of-government Bhutan only as resources be reaped collaboration. (WOG) approach are limited and and is necessary capabilities are distributed. redundancies Government for a small agencies reduced need through to go beyond country like Synergies can coordination operating jurisdiction to adopt the mindset of serving as an integrated and within their e-Government that maximises ICT investments and reaps the synergies of working as one entity. While government agencies they do adopt common area of systems, data are tasked processes and and with different functions have common infrastructure. The WOG and mandates, ICT requirements Shared Services initiative aims to facilitate interoperability within the Government and deliver common hubs, common in the data systems and data centre services for the Government. e-Government Interoperability Framework The electronic government interoperability framework (e-GIF), in its broad sense, Is government enterprise architecture to define technical standards and best practices to enable ICT systems to integrate and interoperate across the RGoB. It institutes set of standards and guidelines that the government adopt to enable agencies better sharing and collaboration within government must agencies. It allows diverse government application systems to easily exchange data and use the data that has been exchanged meaningfully, with support of standardised technologies, data and applications. The e-GIF will be governed maintenance. It adoption be through reinforced by e-GIF Governance and compliance Cabinet Directive to support its adoption by different government and Change Management and agencies will Strategies. The e-GlF is a live document and will be periodically updated whenever there is change of technologies and policies.