Case 3: Regional Digital Authority – An IT Project Mislabeled as Enterprise Architecture
- Sunil Dutt Jha
- Jul 1
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 4
What was delivered: digital platforms and compliance checklists.
What was missing? The structural anatomy of how government actually functions.
A leading digital government authority in the Middle East – operating like a central Digital Ministry – publicly declared success in implementing Enterprise Architecture as the backbone of its national e-government strategy.
The claims included:
A unifying architecture across ministries
A centralized e-services portal
A national data exchange platform
Shared architecture standards for interoperability
“Enterprise-wide” coordination of government systems
EA, they said, was now driving integration, digital efficiency, and policy execution across the public sector.
What Was Really Done
Behind the confident narrative, the actual EA work focused on:
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