Government Enterprises are well-defined activity areas involving one or more public organizations and possibly third-party entities from private organizations or civil society. An Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides technical descriptions of the organizational goals, business and administrative processes, information requirements, supporting applications and technology infrastructure of the enterprise. These descriptions are typically captured in the form of models, diagrams and narrative. An Enterprise Architecture may be associated with a single organization or span a functional area transcending several organizational boundaries, e.g. health care, financial management and social welfare.

Specifically, EAs describe both enterprise operations in:

1. Logical Terms - as interrelated business processes and business rules, information needs and flows, work locations and users, as well as
2. Technical Terms – specifying hardware, software, data, communication, security resources and infrastructure.

This project aims to provide a framework, consisting of meta-models and models, with supporting guidelines for the development of EAs in Macao SAR Government (MSARG) agencies. The project will also demonstrate a concrete usage scenario for the developed EA Framework through a pilot project involving the development of a concrete EA for a selected government agency.

The project will be designed to achieve the following objectives:

1. Establish the state-of-the-art and state-of-practice in Enterprise Architecture development and applications in government.
2. Develop a coherent modeling and description framework for a government enterprise covering strategy, information, processes, applications and services, and technology elements.
3. Provide training to government agencies on the use of Enterprise Architecture in government, and how to develop such Enterprise Architectures for individual agencies and for key government sectors such as Health, Education, Social Welfare and Environment based on the developed framework and the prescribed EA Strategy.
4. Demonstrate the use of the framework by developing a partial Enterprise Architecture consisting of: (i) Enterprise Information Architecture, (ii) Enterprise Process Architecture and (iii) Enterprise Technology Architecture.
5. Disseminate project outcomes through the e-Macao and UNU-IIST-EGOV portal and also support Government Agencies that are interested in developing aspects of their EA.

The Center will execute the project with the following partners: Institute for Tourism Studies – IFT, for the pilot implementation of GEAF, and Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau – SAFP, for the coordination of information gathering from government agencies, e.g. arranging discussion in selected government agencies.