Hot spots on
e-government




the US strategy
on e-government

the EU e-government initiativesi
the World Bank,
the OECD, &
UN on e-government


the EU funded Network of Excellence (NoE) on e-participation DEMO-net


 

 

 

 


method and tools

Getting started and keeping the PPR-momentum up and running is challenging not due to inertia, red-tape and reluctance to change in government.s Although there indeed are such general challenges in governments, these are not specific to IT applications. What is in shortage is taking a pro-active organizational choice when deciding on IT. Instead governments apply government in incremental and survival of current practices of governments as the leading principles. The PPR-concept prompt governments to illuminate the organizational visions of governments, rather than the technical visions of e-government.

Also, PPR wants (suggests) governments to turn the table in favour of digital solutions. PPR ask government to argue which activities that can not be digitalized 100%. Using this rhetoric trick, the IT-scepticals need to argue against the IT-applications. Although this "utopian" view on IT is walking on academic fire, this method can help moving the IT strategic planning up to a more pro-active level.

Finally, PPR asks governments to apply IT as a part of all its activities, actions and deliverables. The methodological problem is that few, if any, have a coherent view on governments and therefore no one will be qualified to give the grand view of all IT applications needed in governments. The route to take is to model all activities, actions and deliverables as a starting point and then design the IT applications. Too often, governments undertake the modelling efforts as a part of implementing an already decided IT strategy.

 

 

 



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Updated July 30, 2006 by Kim Viborg Andersen