Portugal is one of the few OECD countries which have chosen to integrate administrative simplification and e-government politically and strategically to achieve the public policy goal of making everyday life easier for citizens and businesses in their interaction with public authorities. By actively seeking the synergies between administrative simplification and e-government – using the latter as a key lever for simplification – Portugal is trying to impose significant and swift changes on its public administration and its administrative culture both at central and local levels.