These are the materials I’m using at the iCities: Primeras Jornadas sobre Blogs, e-Government y Participación Digital [First Conference on Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation], for the opening speech, in which I take part on Friday 9th May 2008.
Slides:
Bibliography
Castells, M. (2000). “Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society”. In British Journal of Sociology, Jan-Mar 2000, 51(1), 5-24. London: Routledge.
Castells, M. (2004). “Informationalism, Networks, And The Network Society: A Theoretical Blueprint”. In Castells, M. (Ed.), The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Dutta, S., López-Claros, A. & Mia, I. (Eds.) (2006). Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006: Leveraging ICT for...
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E-Government,
meetings,
e-Readiness,
Digital Literacy,
Blog,
activism,
Participation, Engagement, Use, Activism,
icities,
e-Government, e-Administration,
Engagement,
Use
This e-primer walks its readers through the vision and value of e-government interoperability and the steps required to achieve effective interoperability. It also answers some fundamental questions such as why government interoperability frameworks should be developed; who should be involved; how are they produced and revised; and what are the key factors for their successful development and operationalization....
This APDIP e-Note describes a methodology to identify ‘killer’ applications and models of e-governance that may be suitable for deployment and wide-scale replication in telecentres throughout the Philippines. The same methodology can be used to guide other telecentres around the world....
Today I imparted a seminar belonging to the Executive Master in e-Governance organized by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and partnered by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
General information
Details of the presentation (including slides to download)
Slides on Slideshare
Recommended Bibliography
I just want to thank the attendants to the course for being such an interesting audience and for making me think because of their witty questions.
Syllabus
Information and Communication Technologies for Development: ICT4D
Food or computers?
Efficacy, efficiency
Leapfrogging Development
Second Bests
Endogenous development
The concept of access and the measurement of the Knowledge Society
The Telecommunications Model: limitations
The Broadcasting Model: limitations
Access...
Notes on the seminar at UOC’s Law and Political Science School Reconsidering the analysis of the uses of ICTs by political parties: an application to the Catalan case, presented by Albert Batlle, Rosa Borge, Ana Sofía Cardenal and Albert Padró-Solanet, after their homonimous communication at the 4th ECPR General Conference in Pisa.
Is there a crisis on political participation?
From 1950 to our days, participation in elections has notably decreased in most developed countries.
Same applies when we look both at the membership/voters ratio and the absolute membership volume.
Electoral volatility — voters changing the party they vote — also increases.
Why those changes?
Positive approach: changes in cleavages that explained vote intention and no longer can so clearly explain vote...
Akeh Lucas Kunen & Zigo Morfaw Damien
E-Health Africa: Overcoming the Barriers to its Implementation. A case study of Sub Sahara Africa
Intend to identify the barriers to e-Health implementation in sub-saharan Africa and see how can these barriers be overcome.
Political barriers
Economic barriers
Socio-cultural factors
Technical barriers
Solutions to Political barriers
Leadership
Leadership
Leadership
Solutions to Economic barriers
Infrastructure development
Poverty alleviation
Assistance from donor organizations
Solutions to Socio-Cultural barriers
Education
Digital divide
Use of ICTs in public institutions
My Comments
During the debate, issues arise about citizenship awareness (on e-Health) and overriding (corrupt) governments, which reminds me of some good hints Francisco...
Student research seminar: Seok-Jin Eom
In this presentation, I would like to examine what factors made the different outcomes and performances of e-goverment. Focusing on the roles of consultant in private sector and the institutional arrangement through which their policy ideas and knowledge came into government and were fortified and spread, the Federal Enterprise Archietecture initiative in the U.S. federal government will be anlyzed.
The Korean Government benchmarked the US e-Government initatives, but relayed to a “stove-piped” business reference model: shifting from function-driven to agency centric; and from cross-agency to stove-piped systemic.
What’s missing
Relations between public and private sector
Receptivity of ideas from private sector to government...
Lead: Helen Margetts
What is the impact of the internet on public policy? How does it affect governments’ capacity to influence societal behaviour? One way of tackling this question is to break policy down into four constituent elements - the four ‘tools’ of government policy identified by Christopher Hood and Helen Margetts in their new book The Tools of Government in the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, building on Hood’s 1983 classic):
• nodality
• authority
• treasure
• organisation
The internet and other digital technologies have potential to impact government’s use of all of these tools, both through the use of such technologies by government itself and through societal trends in internet use, to which governments must respond. New webmetric techniques offer...
Lead: Sunshine Hillygus
Political scholars have long recognized that information and communication technologies have fundamentally altered how candidates run campaigns–websites, online fundraising, and email communication have become integral to political campaigns. Often, however, these new technologies are viewed as a supplemental communication tool for conducting “politics as usual” — presumed to change the style of political campaigns, but not the basic structure of political interaction. I argue that new technologies have changed not only how candidates communicate with voters, it has also changed the substance of that communication. The explosion of information about individual voters and the diversification and fragmentation of the communications environment...
Here comes the bibliography I’m using to teach my course Technological grounds of the e-Administration belonging to the Master in e-Administration at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Bibliography
Castells, M. (2001). La Era de la Información: Economía, Sociedad y Cultura. Vol. 1: La sociedad red. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Center for International Development at Harvard University. (Ed.) (2000). Readiness for the Networked World. A Guide for Developing Countries. Cambridge: Center for International Development at Harvard University. Retrieved February 17, 2006 from http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/readinessguide/guide.pdf
Copeland, B. J. (2006). “The Modern History of Computing”. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Summer 2006 Edition. Retrieved July 10, 2006...
The Congress on Internet, Law and Politics has the aim of continuing the task of reflecting on, analyzing and discussing the main changes taking place in law and politics in the information society. This third congress focuses on the questions that currently represent the most important challenges and new developments in the fields of copyright, data protection, Internet security, problems of responsibility, electronic voting, and the new regulation of e-Administration, as well as dedicating a specific area to the current state of the use of new technologies by law professionals.
Do we need e-voting?
Josep Maria Reniu, Professor of Political Sciences, University of Barcelona
Left to right: Rosa Borge, Gerard Cervelló, Josep Maria Reniu
The digital evolution in the public arena is,...
The Congress on Internet, Law and Politics has the aim of continuing the task of reflecting on, analyzing and discussing the main changes taking place in law and politics in the information society. This third congress focuses on the questions that currently represent the most important challenges and new developments in the fields of copyright, data protection, Internet security, problems of responsibility, electronic voting, and the new regulation of e-Administration, as well as dedicating a specific area to the current state of the use of new technologies by law professionals.
Law Project for the electronic access to Public Administration by the citizenship
Juan Miguel Márquez, Director General of Administrative Modernisation at the Spanish Public Administration Ministry
The aim of...
BEIJING, 20 April 2007 - United Nations Development Programme – Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP), in partnership with IBM and Oracle held the Government Interoperability Frameworks (GIF) Workshop and Study Group Meeting at the Beijing International Hotel on 18-20 April 2007. The event was hosted by the Chinese Government’s State Council Informatization Office (SCITO)....
I’m proud to announce the launching of the new Master in e-Administration (link in Spanish) by the Open University of Catalonia [Barcelona, Spain], in which I am both author and teacher of the first part devoted to the technological ground of electronic Administration.
The structure of the master is as follows:
Technological grounds of the e-Administration
Juridical grounds of the e-Administration
Politic and organizational grounds of the e-Administration
e-Administration design, implementation and evaluation
ICT applications in the public framework
Analysis of the e-Administration
The master (actually, a one year post-degree) is directed by Dr. Agustí Cerrillo, expert in e-Administration and e-Governance, and begins in March 2007. There’s the option to follow two...
This APDIP e-Note introduces the concept of pro-poor e-governance; gives two examples of e-governance projects targeted at poor and vulnerable groups; and provides a comprehensive approach to pro-poor e-governance comprised of seven building blocks....
This publication, with a foreword by Prof. M. S. Swaminathan, systematically analyzes 18 projects in India that use ICT for the benefit of poor people, and provides recommendations on how ICT can be applied to the massive, widespread and seemingly intractable problems of poverty. The publication also ranks the projects by their relevance, service delivery, community participation and empowerment, equality in decision-making and benefits, sustainability, replicability and their prospects for being scaled-up....
The UNDP Regional Centre Bangkok (RCB), UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre (BRC) and the e-Governance Academy of Estonia are organizing the first joint Asia-Pacific and Europe-CIS inter-regional ICTD/e-Governance Community of Practice meeting for UNDP Programme Staff, government counterparts, representatives of the business community and civil society. It will be held in Tallinn, Estonia between 4 and 8 December 2006....
This APDIP e-Note looks at how e-government can help fight corruption; gives two well-known examples from the Republic of Korea and India where e-government has successfully helped to fight corruption; and discusses the challenges in designing and implementing similar programmes....
UNDP in collaboration with the National Institute for Smart Government and Cisco Systems organized the South Asia Public Sector ICT Summit in Hyderabad on 24-25 January 2005....
China's State Council Informatization Office (SCITO), APDIP, Cisco Systems and UNDP China organized the second annual Asia-Pacific Public Services Summit in Beijing, China from 8 to 10 June 2005. This year's Summit focused on the theme of "Cross-Agency Collaboration" in e-Government, and explored issues ranging from governance to standards to adoption. Views from China, and across the region were represented....
Out Now: APDIP e-Note 3 - The Key to Increasing Transparency in e-Government Deployment: Public Feedback Mechanisms...
This symposium focuses on the theories, practices and strategies of e-government. It is a joint effort by the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA), the National Computerization Agency (NCA), and the Korea Association for Policy Studies (KAPS)....
As part of the project entitled "Capacity Building of Asia Pacific e-Government Initiatives," APDIP, UNDP's Asia Regional Governance Programme and the United Nation Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) jointly organized a regional workshop in Bangkok, Thailand on 24-25 April 2006 to review and disuss 20 case studies from 12 different Asia-Pacific countries. This workshop was held back-to-back with egov Asia 2006, the Asian e-government conference, and at the same venue in Rama Gardens Hotel and Resort in Bangkok....
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Pakistan,
Governance,
Government,
cambodia,
Fiji,
India,
SriLanka,
Thailand,
Japan,
HongKong,
Mongolia,
Philippines,
Governing,
egovernance,
egovernment,
SouthKorea,
China,
Policy,
APDIP Project,
Asia-Pacific,
E-Government
egov Asia 2006, the Asian e-Government conference was held on 26-28 April 2006 at the Rama Gardens Hotel and Resort in Bangkok, Thailand. This event organized by the Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) and GIS Development highlighted e-government trends and strategies in Asia....
Abdul Rahim, R., Siegenthaler Muinde, G. & Waldburger, D. (2005). Access, Empowerment & Governance: Creating a World of Equal Opportunities with ICT. Kuala Lumpur: Global Knowledge Partnership.
Retrieved March 07, 2006 from http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/view_file.cfm?fileid=3502
Categories:Digital Inclusion | e-Government | Participation
Abstract:
This book argues that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can play a decisive role in both. Drawing on current research, learning and experience from concrete projects, the authors show that ICT provide an overarching enabling platform for development processes. Because of their generic and transformative power, ICT can not only contribute to the achievement of specific development objectives in areas...
At the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (i.e. my Faculty) we are organising the II Congress on Internet, Law and Political Science that will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on May, 8th and 9th, 2006.
Among other issues:
eGovernment
Internet Governance
eJustice
eBusiness, security and digital crime
Data security and digital communications privacy
eAdministration and Public information
Websites and political parties
Democracy in ICTs
Our guest star is, no doubt, Benjamin Barber.
During the congress, the second issue of IDP, review of Internet, Law and Political Science will be presented. BTW, the call for communications is open and the best one will be published in the......
At the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (i.e. my Faculty) we are organising the II Congress on Internet, Law and Political Science that will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on May, 8th and 9th, 2006.
Among other issues:
eGovernment
Internet Governance
eJustice
eBusiness, security and digital crime
Data security and digital communications privacy
eAdministration and Public information
Websites and political parties
Democracy in ICTs
Our guest star is, no doubt, Benjamin Barber.
During the congress, the second issue of IDP, review of Internet, Law and Political Science will be presented. BTW, the call for communications is open and the best one will be published in the......
Abdul Rahim, R., Siegenthaler Muinde, G. & Waldburger, D. (2005). Access, Empowerment & Governance: Creating a World of Equal Opportunities with ICT. Kuala Lumpur: Global Knowledge Partnership.
Retrieved March 07, 2006 from http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/view_file.cfm?fileid=3502
Categories:Digital Inclusion | e-Government | Participation
Abstract:
This book argues that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can play a decisive role in both. Drawing on current research, learning and experience from concrete projects, the authors show that ICT provide an overarching enabling platform for development processes. Because of their generic and transformative power, ICT can not only contribute to the achievement of specific development objectives in areas...