This E-Leaders 2021 virtual meeting will reflect on the role of digital governments and the E-Leaders to strengthen governments ability to shape a fair and sustainable digital transformation of societies and economies. The meeting will take stock of the impact of the 2014 Recommendation of the Council on Digital Government Strategies and discuss how the Digital Government Index and new potential OECD instruments can help achieve the evolving role of digital governments around the following four fronts:

• The role of digital government to tackle today’s democratic and environmental challenges
• Standards, tools (i.e. e-ID) and skills for people-centric public services in the digital age
• Seven years of the Recommendation of the Council on Digital Government Strategies
• Framing and measuring the digital transformation of governments