In its "Strategy for an information society in Switzerland", the Federal Council has defined principles and priority measures to promote the information society in Switzerland which are to be implemented in a decentralised but coordinated way by the departments and offices which are responsible for the individual areas. The initial strategy, drawn up in 1998, was replaced in January 2006 by an updated text, which demands three priority measures: the elaboration - in cooperation with the cantons - of a national eHealth and a national E-Government strategy, plus the elaboration of a concept for uniform handling of electronic data and documents within the federal administration.