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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456473403321

Titolo

Understanding e-government in Europe : issues and challenges / / edited by Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou, Rajash Rawal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-24571-1

1-135-24572-X

1-282-97506-4

9786612975066

0-203-86609-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KoutrakouVassiliki N. <1962->

NixonPaul G

RawalRajash

Disciplina

352.3

352.3/802854678

352.3802854678

Soggetti

Internet in public administration - Europe

Communication in politics - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I The fundamentals of E-Government in Europe; 1 The Fifth Estate: Democratic social accountability through the emerging network of networks; 2 Delivering citizen-centric public services through technology-facilitated organisational change; 3 Beyond i2010: E-Government current challenges and future scenarios; Part II Conceptual challenges; 4 E-Government and government transformation: Technical interactivity, political influence and citizen return

5 E-Government, customers and citizens6 Accountability in the context of E-Government; 7 Addressing the real world of public consultation: Whither E-Consultation?; Part III E-Government in practice; 8 Online



dispute resolution, E-Justice and Web 2.0; 9 Identity management in E-Government service provision: Towards new modes of government and citizenship; 10 Biometrics: From biometricised borders to securitising non-territorial space; 11 The merger of health and technology for Europe's future: Identifying obstacles and achieving a successful E-Health implementation

12 Overcoming barriers to innovation in E-Government: The Swiss way13 Elected politicians and their tastes for E-Democracy: Experiences from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Norway; Part IV Perceptions, subversions and new challenges to E-Government; 14 Challengers to traditional E-Government (nongovernmental actors); 15 Responding to cyberterror: A failure to firewall freedoms?; 16 Ministry of Truth? Perceptions of trust in E-Government; 17 Using E-Government for communication and co-ordination among regional international organisations: Preliminary insights from nascent interactions

ConclusionsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This volume critically explores the contentions in the emerging debate surrounding new media technologies and the extent to which they are challenging traditional political and government models.  Examining a range of citizen/government interactions which together form e-government in different contexts, this book assesses the potential of new media technologies to facilitate new institutional patterns for governance and participation, as experienced primarily, but not only, across Europe. Analysing a range of challenges spanning from those of a technological and conceptual na