Saturday, October 27, 2007
Political news - E-Democracy.Org
Political news - E-Democracy.Org: "Political news from major media sources (US)"
President 2008 - E-Democracy.Org
President 2008 - E-Democracy.Org
Welcome to the new wiki site for the U.S. Presidential election in 2008. Early in the election process, E-Democracy.Org compiles a set of recommended links with an emphasis on non-partisan and non-profit resources along with candidate and major media links.
Welcome to the new wiki site for the U.S. Presidential election in 2008. Early in the election process, E-Democracy.Org compiles a set of recommended links with an emphasis on non-partisan and non-profit resources along with candidate and major media links.
E-Democracy.Org
E-Democracy.Org - Discussion Forums with Political, Elections, News, and Government Links - Since 1994: "E-Democracy.Org is a non-profit, non-partisan, volunteer-based project whose mission is to expand participation and build stronger democracies and communities through the power of information and communication technologies and strategies"
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Trust Issues - Local Government
Michelle Gamble-Risley - December 2002
Center for Digital Government
Excerpt from Interview : Todd SanderChief Information Officer, City of Tucson Arizona
CDG: What are some sleeper issues in your city?
Sander: I think one of the things we're going to have to deal with is the notion of trust between government and its constituents. If we're willing to engage people in these community conversations whether they're local, state or federal, there has to be some understanding of what that means. There has to be a belief that these [engagements] are legitimate; people will be heard; their information or opinions will be dealt with judiciously. In some respects, people just don't tend to trust government -- and the more sophisticated we get with our tools and our processes, the more difficult it will be for people to trust unless we're more thoughtful about the kinds of protections we put in place. It's about personal information, and appropriate dissemination and access to public records, which has certainly become more of an issue since September 11. There was a big rush to just make government completely visible. Everything we had we were looking at trying to figure out how to put the information out on the Internet -- in retrospect that probably doesn't make that make sense. People do need to have some information about government to understand why decision are made and hold government officials accountable; but they don't necessarily need unfettered access to plans for city halls, legislative offices, sewer systems, telecommunications, etc. So, I think maybe the issue that we in government need to think about is what the appropriate relationship is between available information and what should only be available under special circumstances.
Center for Digital Government
Excerpt from Interview : Todd SanderChief Information Officer, City of Tucson Arizona
CDG: What are some sleeper issues in your city?
Sander: I think one of the things we're going to have to deal with is the notion of trust between government and its constituents. If we're willing to engage people in these community conversations whether they're local, state or federal, there has to be some understanding of what that means. There has to be a belief that these [engagements] are legitimate; people will be heard; their information or opinions will be dealt with judiciously. In some respects, people just don't tend to trust government -- and the more sophisticated we get with our tools and our processes, the more difficult it will be for people to trust unless we're more thoughtful about the kinds of protections we put in place. It's about personal information, and appropriate dissemination and access to public records, which has certainly become more of an issue since September 11. There was a big rush to just make government completely visible. Everything we had we were looking at trying to figure out how to put the information out on the Internet -- in retrospect that probably doesn't make that make sense. People do need to have some information about government to understand why decision are made and hold government officials accountable; but they don't necessarily need unfettered access to plans for city halls, legislative offices, sewer systems, telecommunications, etc. So, I think maybe the issue that we in government need to think about is what the appropriate relationship is between available information and what should only be available under special circumstances.
Excerpts from Essay on Trust in Digital Government
Trust in digital government:
"Trust in digital government"
Neil C. Rowe
Cebrowski Institute
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943 USA
(This is a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Digital Government, ed. A.-V. Anttiroiko & M. Malkia, Hershey, PA, USA: The Idea Group, 2006.)
Introduction: The concept of trust in organizations has been an important area of recent research in sociology and management science (Sztompka, 1999). Trust is positive expectations of positive actions by others, and is important to well-functioning organizations of all sorts. Trust facilitates the effectiveness of government. A focus on trust leads to a more humanistic view of individuals within organizations than that of the traditional managerial psychology of humans solely as input-output devices whose performance must be monitored and measured. New technology changes the form of government operations. So it is natural to ask how trust is affected by the advent of the technologies and practices of digital government, as it is affected by online security practices (Friedman, Kahn, & Howe, 2000). On the one hand, digital government should be more efficient government, and people trust more in well-run, efficient processes. On the other hand, digital government could enable governments to evade responsibility for their actions by imposing new barriers to citizens, restricting access to information more, falsifying information more easily, and providing a new set of excuses for inefficiency. Some extremists (Postman, 1993) claim that most technology cannot be trusted, but few people agree. So the issue needs to be examined at length."
"Trust in digital government"
Neil C. Rowe
Cebrowski Institute
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943 USA
(This is a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Digital Government, ed. A.-V. Anttiroiko & M. Malkia, Hershey, PA, USA: The Idea Group, 2006.)
Introduction: The concept of trust in organizations has been an important area of recent research in sociology and management science (Sztompka, 1999). Trust is positive expectations of positive actions by others, and is important to well-functioning organizations of all sorts. Trust facilitates the effectiveness of government. A focus on trust leads to a more humanistic view of individuals within organizations than that of the traditional managerial psychology of humans solely as input-output devices whose performance must be monitored and measured. New technology changes the form of government operations. So it is natural to ask how trust is affected by the advent of the technologies and practices of digital government, as it is affected by online security practices (Friedman, Kahn, & Howe, 2000). On the one hand, digital government should be more efficient government, and people trust more in well-run, efficient processes. On the other hand, digital government could enable governments to evade responsibility for their actions by imposing new barriers to citizens, restricting access to information more, falsifying information more easily, and providing a new set of excuses for inefficiency. Some extremists (Postman, 1993) claim that most technology cannot be trusted, but few people agree. So the issue needs to be examined at length."
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