Category: eGovernment

WebReview.com’s Strategy Soapbox: Being Transparent: “The transparency effect should make every online business extremely careful in their dealings with customers, and overly choosy about the vendors and partners that they deal with. Your business is about building trust with customers, and trust in the online universe — as we’re all finding out — is an extremely fragile commodity.” It’s an article about eCommerce (eBay, …) but the theme is highly relevant for eGovernment and eDemocracy, and Tim Barkow has some good points.

eGovernment conference: from policy to practice Conference & Exhibition: 29-30 November, Brussels

Computerworld Danmark: Myndigheder sylter net-henvendelser. Government agencies don’t reply to emails.

Jane Fountain of Harvard University focuses on the relationship between organizations, information technology, and governance. Gotta get her rececnt book Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change.

Swedish text only: Britta Lejon om förvaltningsutveckling på konferens med statliga myndighetschefer. Important read for anyone working with e-government and other govarnance issues. Especially for those in Sweden, of course.

Speaking of Sweden, I will soon leave Stockholm. Got a job in Copenhagen, and will start there on 1 October. In Statens Information, an agency which translates into the Danish State Information Service.
I am looking forward to the new job, and to come “back home” after more than four years abroad. I’ll miss Sweden (well …, better not “break up” completely, because I might end up living in Sweden, though in Malmö). The commute is quite a bit, but may in fact be better than commuting on the Danish side.
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Rewamped Welcome to the White House. W3C: Sorry, I can’t validate this document. No Bobby approaval neither. Did anyone say 508??

FCW: Worldwide Web – Has e-gov stalled in the Information Age? The argument that “e-government’s global development remains largely haphazard” is popping up more and more often, and now even in FCW. But, is a haphazardous approach really wrong?
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Statement of Patricia McGinnis, President and CEO, Council for Excellence in Government before the Committee on Governmental Affairs in the US Senate: “This is not only about e-government. It is also about e-the people. The internet links people not only to one another and to e-commerce, but to the public marketplace of ideas, initiatives, innovation, transactions, and results.”

IDAs plans for on-line government services are public now. William Heath experienced the Sandhamn syndrome.
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McKinsey Quarterly: Putting citizens online, not in line: “E-government, in short, allows the private sector to operate in areas that used to fall strictly within the public domain. The challenge for policy-makers is to recognize that what is good for business is consistent with good government.” Is this the real challenge?