Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Chinese egovernment Over at Virtual China, China's egovernment: room for hope includes Min Jiang, at the Department of Communication, Purdue University, has written an information-packed dissertation on the potential and limits of e-government efforts on 30 different provincial Chinese government websites.  The study analyzes four major modes of e-consultation on Chinese e-governments: Q&A with government, e-petition (or online Xinfang), online opinion polls, and citizen input boxes. 8:56:04 PM    comment [] Resource and Thought-provoking Posting From the UK Authority Blog: News and Views on Public Sector IT posted: This summer, ODPM campaign to boost take-up of e-government services will hit billboards, the press, radio, and the internet. Much of the ODPM efforts will focus on engaging those parts of the population considered hard to reach with new technologies, such as the elderly, people with disabilities, and ethnic minority groups. In this context, Ofcom latest research on media literacy makes interesting reading. It aims to gauge the ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts. It finds that over 65s have significantly lower levels of media literacy than other age groups, and this is partly attributable to a perceived lack of need for new digital services. Permalink to the Authority blog post The e-government blog resources have many UK entries. Discuss. 8:45:49 PM    comment [] Government Selling Personal Data Opposed German group opposes sale of biometric passport data. A nonprofit organization promoting IT in Germany has criticized a government plan to sell personal data to finance the country's new biometric passports. [Computerworld News] 8:31:52 PM    comment [] Learning from Each Other ERP boosts reporting, ROI for manufacturer. Company conducts an IT overhaul because aging information system couldn't integrate four different business divisions, forcing employees to build proprietary and often inaccurate data models. [Computerworld News] This story about an Australian not-for-profit company applies to government as well. Similar stovepipes of proprietary data models make government integration and IT consolidation difficult. Some not-for-profit organizations scrutinize their large purchases, so a bevy of small software and hardware purchases might be easier to make, and promote diversity (not bad in itself, but difficult to share information). Governments and not-for-profits could some exchange information to make their IT align with their missions better, and also to make better IT decisions in a different context from public, for-profit companies. Tangentially, non-profit Tech Soup has some good resources for government too. For project management software ideas, see Three Easy Ways to Manage Tough Projects: Three TechSoup project managers write about their favorite software. 8:27:22 PM    comment []

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