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4th Internet, Law and Politics Congress (V). Helen Margetts: Government on the Web via ICTlogy June 3rd, 2008 at 10:04

Notes from the 4th Internet, Law and Politics Congress.Session V Keynote speech Helen Margetts Government on the Web A shift of paradigm in Government Dunleavy, Margetts (2006) Digital Era Governance: the dominant paradigm of public governance reform (new public management) is dead. The digital-era governance is nigh… or just happening. What happened during the New Public Management? Disaggregation, into tiny decentralized government and quasi-government agencies Competition within the daily tasks of government, its relationships with suppliers, outsourcing, financing, etc. Incentivization: via privatization, performance related pay, charging, etc. What are we likely to see during the Digital-era governance? Reintegration, going the way back of atomization that the New Public...

Towards e-Health 2.0? Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age via ICTlogy May 12th, 2008 at 10:55

From 2005 to 2007, good friend Francisco Lupiáñez took part in a Manuel Castells’s project entitled Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health System (aka PIC Salut). His main findings in the Public Health system related with the adoption of ICTs are really similar to the ones I pointed at — there related to the Educational system — in my conference Opening Session: Digital Citizens vs. Analogue Institutions (indeed partly based on data from a brother project, L’Escola a la Societat Xarxa: Internet a l’Educació Primària i Secundària (Volum I), also led by Castells and belonging both of them to a framework project about ICT adoption in Catalonia, Spain). These findings can be summarized as follows: ICTs are...