The report, Beyond e-government: the world's most successful ICT-enabled transformations, released by the head of the UK's e-government unit and CIO Ian Watmore, highlights the achievements of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and Centrelink for their integration with JobNetwork and other welfare agencies, and the Australian Taxation Office's electronic taxation services.

Special Minister of State Senator Eric Abetz welcomed the release, saying the report provided an extremely useful international reference point for the governments involved.

The US, Germany, Japan, France, UK, Italy, Canada, Sweden and Australia were rated in the report, which recognizes a number of shared challenges that all countries have in common.

The report also noted Australia's achievement across health, education, payment of benefits, corporate services, and public protection.

"The challenges that all countries share relate to managing the impact on human resources, managing ICT investment, information sharing between government agencies, fostering public confidence in e-government, and delivering savings to government, while effectively measuring the outcomes of investing in e-government," Abetz said. "The Australian government has been working for many years to address the particularly complex challenges that all countries face in implementing e-government."