Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Norwegian: Direktoratet for forvaltning og ikt) or Difi^[1] was a government agency subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform. The agency was made defunct December 31 2019, and its functions merged into The Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, created January 1 2020.

Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

Direktoratet for forvaltning og ikt (Difi)
Agency overview
Formed	January 1, 2008
Jurisdiction	Government of Norway
Headquarters	Oslo
Agency executive	Steffen Sutorius
Parent agency	Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform
Website	www.difi.no

Responsibilities

It is responsible for help the public sector achieve quality, efficiency, user friendliness, openness and participation, as well as helping the public sector be organized and led in a good way with good intersectoral cooperation. It provides management consulting for the public sector and operates several websites on behalf of the Government.^[2]

History

The agency was created on January 1, 2008, and is based in Oslo and Leikanger. It was created after a merger of Statskonsult, the Norwegian eProcurement Secretariat and Norge.no.

Director from the start was Hans Christian Holte. He left the position in summer 2013 to become director of the Norwegian Tax Administration.^[3] Utheim, Midtsjø (30 October 2013) Ingelin Killengreen was hired as interim director with start December 2013.^[4]