Manifestations of e-governance in modern society are numerous and its importance is hard to overestimate. I have just returned from a press trip to France, where we were introduced to the country's achievements in the area of e-health, a rather broad concept that involves technological innovation, telemedicine, online access to medical records and drugs prescriptions and so on. In the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris, we were shown an impressive Telegeria network, coordinated by Dr Pierre Espinoza and Alexis Westermann, President of Bluelinea, a company specialising in home care of vulnerable patients. This network connects leading hospitals in different parts of the country and allows them to hold high-quality and high-definition video-consultations between leading specialists and patients staying either at home or at specialised care wards hundreds of miles away.