Case 1: A Nigerian small village community portal
Believe it or not, London is less globalised than the small community village of Nigeria. Or, to be fair, they are both equally globalised but in different terms:

All these Nigerian emigrants constitute a considerable part of the immigrants in Greece, Germany, U.K., or France. They live in their own parallel world and we think of them as irrelevant to our own e-Government realities but looking closer the picture may change dramatically. There is a great bibliography corpus of scholarly articles on the issue of migration for African countries.

The interactions now that these people have with their country and community take currently place mainly through Western Union transfers (financing other members of their families back at home) and telephony. Most of them lack any certificates and this creates a lot of dysfunctions in the recipient countries. More specifically this means that a lot of information is lost or simply not there when needed. Of course, we prefer to not think about these matters but again not thinking of something does not mean that this does not exist.

The reason for existence of what we call the 100 Euros portal is to help document all related data that may be useful when these people who live and work abroad shall need them – or to scale up the convincing factor for our argument: when the countries that are hosting these people will need this information.

We don’t talk about suprarenal infrastructures that will not have any meaning at all: we talk about some basic infrastructure that will allow some basic exchange of information and help improve the currently suboptimal situation. Independently from any other reasons, the simple fact that European Union countries host a great amount of people originating outside the Union makes a bold statement for the necessity of such basic infrastructures in their countries and communities of origin.

In the considered case, the small Nigerian village community would need to support a portal that would provide information about its emigrants to any authority they now deal with. Of course, this shall increase the value scale as the community itself will be capable to keep up-to-date records about its diaspora members.


Case 2: A Ukranian rural area community portal
Besides the bright side of the EU reality according to which Europe needs highly-skilled workforce, there is, unfortunately, a less bright reality according to which Europe has same if not even more increased needs for lowly-skilled workforce – some of which may vary according to seasonality elements.

This means that German agro-economy (in general, or Bundesland or local level) may have a need for land workers to collect potatoes. In Italy the picture is same and only the collection items differ: it is about tomatoes. And in Greece it is about cotton in Thessaly or peaches in Imathia.

A great amount of seasonal workers ends up in conditions that are close to 18th century slavery – though they are transferred in several cases with modern airplanes. The reason is simple: demand and supply is not governed by authorities but by entrepreneurs who operate close (and usually outside) the borders of legality. (What we only tend to forget is of course that these high-risk entrepreneurs are filling a need: quite a shameful but though a real and a persistent need.)

In case the Ukranian rural community had the luxury of such a low cost infrastructure that would be connected to the more sophisticated infrastructures and systems of the other EU countries, their workforce could find better conditions and experience a more decent way for the globalised economy.


Case 3: Battle against trafficking
How could the 100 Euros e-Gov portal help the international battle against trafficking?

According to Wikipedia, trafficking of human beings is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people for the purpose of exploitation. Trafficking involves a process of using illicit means such as threat, use of force, or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability. For sure, the traces of people who are lost or were abducted cannot be supported or maintained by small community portals.

However, we should think about the obvious: all these people belonged to a community. It is very easy to maintain a global watch service for all these people who unwillingly cut their communications and interactions with their communities.

Again, the issue of business process interoperability with Interpol or Europol or other national systems that are used in the battle against trafficking is definitely not in the scope of a small community portal. The only hard requirement for the 100 Euros portals is to allow deployment by future services something we can call forward compatibility.