An insider’s view on the Austrian E-Government story: According to the last European eGovernment Benchmark Austria is the leading European eGovernment country. This first place is the result of a sophisticated, service-oriented eGovernment strategy and hard work with the restriction of a tight budget. The first part of the presentation will give a short overview of the strategy and the modular Austrian eGovernment model, with a special focus on the various open source reusables, which can be used by any government and private organization throughout the world. The second part will focus on the lessons learned in building an eGovernment strategy for a whole country.