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How much do government really spend on e-gov projects?
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The original report claims that Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.6 trillion in 2011. The article, being in the English language, the definition of trillion is short-scale. This means that one Trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million; 10^12; SI prefix: tera-) according to Wikipedia.

The confusion comes from the fact that there is a difference between countries that got French-heritage and English-heritage. In French speaking countries, a trillion is defined as 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million million million; 10^18; SI prefix: exa-.

There are historical reasons behind this decision.

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