Accenture: Our Functional Expertise: eDemocracy
They write: “eDemocracy embodies four stages:
What’s the fourth stage?
Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: Danish, Denmark, Copenhagen, Valby, John, Male, 36-40!
Besides e-Government at large, run by Alan of the UK’s Office of the e-Envoy, I know of few GovBlogs, much less eGovBlogs.
But there are a few out there. Here are two, from Utah:
David Fletcher’s Government and Technology Weblog
Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog – “Organizations usually get the IT they deserve…”. Phillip J. Windley is Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah. Windley has an interesting white paper, BTW: eGovernment Maturity.
Know of any other GovBlogs out there?
WashingtonTechnology.com: OMB unveils plan for rulemaking portal
“Office of Management and Budget officials recently outlined plans to launch a new federal portal by Dec. 31 where individuals can comment on proposed federal rules. The online rulemaking project is one of 24 e-government initiatives designed to make the government more efficient, effective and responsive to the needs of citizens.”
OMB has made a business case, which shows that redundancy has it’s costs, huge costs.
Although not exactly a rulemaking portal, but rather a more general government-citizen dialogue and deliberation platform, in Denmark, we’re working on Denmark Debate (DanmarksDebatten), and it strikes me that perhaps we too should make a business case like OMB’s.
Let’s see:
We have several hundred agencies and institutions in the target group. Potentially more (all public institutions), but let’s stick to, say, 500.
If each of these, independently of each other, goes out and buys some system/service on the market, runs everything themselves (reinventing the wheel), I wonder how much money this would cost alltogether. Lots of millions, for sure. Two figured M€, or more.
Now, redundancy is IMO not quite a “valid” argument when talking about citizen engagement. It seems to me to be absurd neobenthamism to try and make a business case for democracy.
A Google Search for GovBlog gives no results. Yet.
Oxford Internet Institute conference: Casting a Wider Net, Integrating Research and Policy on the Social Impacts of the Internet, to be held on Friday 27 September 2002 at University of Oxford. I hope I get an invitation 🙂
Today’s argument: Communities of practice is something e-government and e-democracy at large needs. Or, there will be no good e-governance without strong communities of practice.
I’m considering writing a book on this, and am looking for a publisher. Anyone out there?
This coming week’s activity on this theme – the Dragør-seminar with Wenger, Smith and White – is overbooked now. Quite good, especially considering it is held in the middle of the holiday season.
I’ve migrated to Slashdemocracy.org’s Blog Network using MovableType as backend for Gotzeblogged. It seems to work OK. Correction: It works great 🙂
Most of the improvements are backstage, but there are a few important new user features, in particular, a new comments function, allowing everyone to make comments to my postings. Please feel free to do so! Or go to Slashdemocracy Forum for more community.
You gotta love’em: MovableType has done it again (been innovative): TrackBack.
Irving Rappaport has announced a new E-Democracy Coordinators Training Course. It is an online course offered by the Hansard Society in association with Dr Gilly Salmon of the Open University, and I’m sure it will be great.