Sunday, September 03, 2006

Post 6: Electronic Government in Developing Countries

The main idea of my proposal is to have a varied and multicultural discussion and data recolection of all the effords, policies, strategic plans and implementaton and diffusion activites each governments (from the perspective of developing or small countries, because Korea is not a devloping country or China) have being doing during the past 5 year or so to encourage de adoption from the citizens and to cross analize this effords in order to stablish commonly basis or a framework that these countries have been working with even without having any communication or related activities with each others. I have been tracing the activity from Malaysia and Mexico, so it woul be very interesting to compare the information with these other countries. I will be so glad to have all the information that you can provide so that we can have a very participative discussion. I'll hope to see your posting, thanks.

3 comments:

Daniela Dimitrova said...

Posted for Susu (Cathy):

I think the birth of electronic government is the innovation between the old and the noew governemt's public service system.The government website could be the key carrier of electronic government. It is a more effecitive, interactive government. It is suppisitional since it is operated on line. Through the websites, the government can post the policies and information, inquire or answer the questions, collect and administrate the data of their employees.
Obviously, the development of the high technology contributes to this innovation, since it is the hardware of this innovation.

As for the soft ware, I think it should be the awareness's updating of the government(or say any organization). For example,In China, as u know, our
country's constituion is launched under the socialism. Which means, perhaps 20 years ago, we focused more on the planned ecnomy but not marketed economy which was adopted a lot since about 10 years ago. 20-25 years ago,the government did not realize how important the democracy could play a role in the government function. At that time, the absolutely governing was the hierarchy power in the constitution. Why the government wanna change the old governing system into the new administering system? Because they ve already found the role of the democracy. So they wanna take the advantage of the high technology(the dramatic development of internet website during these years)to build up a more interactive government which could be a good communication bridge between citizens and the government. With this bridge, they can easily know citizen's thoughts and concerns,they can get the feedbacks of their new policies that if they r good or not and if the citizens r satisfied to accept them or not. This will bring about a good communication between the government and citizens. This will definitely help them to improve and reinforce their administrating.

So, in China, the government would love to apply the new technology(hardware) to achieve the interactive(both-sides) communication that leads the democracy awareness(software).So, I do think the "software" could be the potential stimulus for the innovation of the "hardwares".

Currently, in China,based on the electronic government system, the model of
the government operation system is changing from governing(absolute controling) to administrating(relative managing) to the newest one---serving(good public service,communicating with people in more channels).The electronic government could include 4 parts I think, Technology(basic method),Information(carrier),Government(main body) and Service(final goal).The electronic government in China target at serving the citizens, the social organizations, the companies and the government employees who r their target
audience or say their customers. It aims at intergrating the social resources in the way of limiting the cost to the minimum degree.

Susana,all above is just my own opinions. Hope we can share more different views with other classmates. BTW, I like this posting stuff for our participative discussion. It's really helpful and informative~~

Ko-Jung said...

1. http://www.ey.gov.tw/mp?mp=11
2. http://english.www.gov.tw/e-Gov/index.jsp
3. http://www.mofa.gov.tw/webapp/mp?mp=6
4. http://www.moi.gov.tw/english/index.asp
5. http://english.moe.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=1
6. http://www.moea.gov.tw/home.html
7. http://www.motc.gov.tw/en/hypage.cgi?HYPAGE=Eng_Index.htm
8. http://www.gio.gov.tw/
9. http://www.npm.gov.tw/
10 http://www.apc.gov.tw/en/index.aspx

Av DG said...

I believe that E-Governance is a concept advanced as amazing by countries who already have it in place. The speed and ease of conducting government affairs on the Internet has been extolled by most developed countries. E-governance however, requires so much more than a .gov website.

In the Philippines, where less than 20% of households are wired, iimagining a paper-less bureaucracy is all but a dream. Conducting financial activities (paying bills, taxes, loans) online is virtually impossible. Most government websites in the country are transmission sites with little or no interaction with its audience apart from the contact us link which may not even contain an email address. Government websites offer much of what the agencies at the national level are doing but almost none about their local representatives. Thus, it is not difficult for Filipinos to think of the government as unreachable.

That is why before an effort to transform a paper government to an e-government is made, an assessment of the citizen's capability to employ the technology should be made. Aside from assessment, the infrastructure and the training should be on the to-do list also to make sure that access to .gov sites go beyond the upper and the upper middle class and trickle down to the masses who most need the services that the government provides. With the current situation of the digital 'chasm' in most developing countries, the e-government idea is will remain a beautiful but unattainable dream.