Digital Government Society (in formation)
Mission Statement (approved by public vote between Oct 16 and Nov 16, 2005)
Voter Comments
Excellent phrasing! My perspective is that access to information is the key to an involved citizenry and a necessary component of access to justice.
... engaged in and committed to democratic digital government. <- feels like e-democracy focused statement. I would prefer a more general term to "democratic" (e.g., effective, responsible, accountable, etc.)
Because Electronic Government is a more common term than Digital (check any search engine) I propose to use that name instead.
I'm curious about the meaning of "information and technology," in the second sentence. Is the word "communication" missing? I guess not. Then, what is the difference to current discussions on ICT usage for government?
"-Does it contain reengineering the public sector?
-rather broad containing some quality aspect (e.g timely) and leaving out some other (effectiveness..)" "Digital (or electronic) government … to support [and improve = IT IS MORE ORGANIZATIONAL THEN TECHNICAL ISSUE] public policies and governmen operations, engage … and timely government DIGITAL services.
DGS … practices that nurture KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT NETWORKING USED FOR
technical, social, and … sector."
Great initiative.
The first sentence is incorrect for a large part of the prospective membership. Alternative: "... a global multi-disciplinary organization bringing together scholars of digital government with practitioners engaged in and committed to democratic digital government" Also, reverse sent.1 &; 2: it flows better.
2 thoughts- democratic in the 1at sentence is vague- it means many things to many people. 2nd the statement seems to stop being a mission statement once it gets to "DGS equips" this is more about strategies than about mission it would seem but that is probably my bias towards short statements with 1 or 2 points
"Perhaps this is covered in the first sentence, but might it be important to include something like:
Essential to this study is the exploration of the ethical implications of technology." Sharon, I'd appreciate being kept in the loop on this project. Best of luck!
I really like the proposed statement. I would add—in order to clarify the purpose—that people involved in this initiative seek to study and improve digital government. Probably change the end of the first sentence to something like:"…engaged in and committed to studying and improving democratic digital government'
It covers overall concept.
As I was not aware of the threaded discussion that occurred earlier, I would like to a) have my email added to the listserve for continuing discussions, and b) be directed to any websites, organizations, or resources already identified by the group as valuable to the DGS mission.appropriate comment. hope it can be a bit more specific on how to engage scholars throughout the country and around the world.
Feel something is missing about egovernemt spillover for civil society,third sector and no-profits.
I would have liked to have seen a stronger statement that the society is to encourage university applied research which can be put in practice to build a reponsive and open digital govenment at the local, state, national and international level.
I noticed "research" wasn't explicitly stated until the end, which seems to de-emphasize the role of research in DGS a bit too much.
I don't like the expression 'digital government'. Most of the world uses electronic government and we should stick with that and not confuse the same thing with a different name. Besides, the word 'digital' is less apt than electronic.
Suggest that 'engage citizens' be substituted with 'empower citizens' Focus of the MS seems to be (a little bit) on services, perhaps this should be formulated a bit more neutral, stressing that egov is about all governmental activities.
Good mission statement; perhaps could use say something like "electronic government foster the use of the most appropriate technology," etc as automation is not an end in itself. Also ITC improve access to government : both in terms of exposing govt processes and by offering greater reach of govt services via networks.
"improve..policies.., engage citizens, and provide..timely gov services," is biased language. DG often goes wrong, can disenfranchise citizens and civ servts., lead to central hierarchization,.-especially in non-dem. countries.DG is a neutral concept and must also be studied when it is used negatively.
Should be more focused as that of IEEE, ACM etc. Intro as 'The Digital Government Society (DGS)** is.., details about what this society would do for its members as 'DGS equips .' details about membership as 'The society welcomes.' are out of the scope for a MS. Try further improving the remaining part. I would like to know more about the group´s interaction processes with other
research groups and with the market as well.
"Add the following at the end the sentence in line 9 of the Mission Statement after transformation ;so as to enable public sector to deliver improved and better quality of governance"
I think that the Mission statement is very comprehensive and encompasses both Academia, Business and professionals at large. Congratulations !!!
Count me in !!!
"The society of the XXIth century is based on the democracy, the good communication and interactions between the citizen and local authorities...
I fully support all the approach in the field of researches and practices.."
This is too long a statement. It should be more concise. The mission statement may capture the difference between digital government and digital governance (relates to second sentence). There appears some redundancy in some parts of the statement. In any case, the statement is not cohesive and/or logical.
why do not include even the economic development aspect related to digital government?
The point that could be stressed more than what has been done in this statement is the idea of an "inclusive society." as the digital divide, 'exclusion', alienation etc. pose a real threat to future societies. Otherwise fairly good statement.
"Digital (or electronic) government fosters the use of information and technology
might read
Digital (or electronic) government encompasses the use of information and technology because to foster something means that the thing you are fostering is external to you, as opposed to an inherent part."
To make sure this will be a global society in thought and action, I hope in the futurre we will find many members also from developing countries.It's no good start, if there are only 30 characters for email address. By good luck I need only 27 characters. ;-)
My special interest lies in Electronic ID for on reliable and convenient e-Gov services access, on the basis of supporting technologies, i.e.smartcards, public key instrastructure, biometrics and PIN code
The dg.o meeting speaks only for North America. The DGS cannot therefore be global. Suggestion: replace "global" with "North
American".
"- could expand more on e-democracy and technologically enabled innovative governance
- are civil society institutions eligible for membership as "practitioners"?
- digital mainly refers to content, electronic to channels – maybe the terms are complementary ("d- and e-gov";), not synonyms"
Generalisierte Beschreibung von Prozesskomponenten für die technischen unterstützung von Service-Komponenten. Das Ziel besteht in der semantischen Beschreibung und der Schaffung einheitlicher Onthologien im GD. Von Semantischen Standards zu UMM -Beschreibungen.
Sounds great
I'd love to see a reference to a commitment to involving or consulting citizens as well as engaging them - only when they feel their voices are being listened to will citizens feel that digital government is a genuine improvement over previous government models
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Looks great. I would probably add a comma as follows:is a global, multi-disciplinary organization""