State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Asman Abnur said that Bojonegoro District can be an example of development for its e-government implementation.
“I would like to express my appreciation to Kang Yoto [Bojonegoro Regent Suyoto’s nickname],” he said Wednesday after the Transparent Government Festival in Bojonegoro. A number of East Java government officials also attended the event.
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Both Jakarta and West Java capital Bandung have both been deemed "smart cities" in a region-wide research project from the Economist Intelligence Unit, thanks to recent technology programs adopted by local government in both cities. Jakarta and Bandung are among 20 cities across Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific identified by Startup My City, a research program by EIU, a branch of the Economist Group which provides global economic data and advisory services for industry overviews, and sponsored by Hitachi.
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The Indonesian bureaucracy still has not made full use of information technology, despite an avalanche of tried and tested examples in many countries of well-managed e-governments immeasurably improving the quality of public services.
"[E-government] should stop being just an idea. No more theories, no more comparative studies. We should start practising it," Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reforms Asman Abnur said on Tuesday (06/09).
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Two ministries have called for the better use of information technology in the Indonesian bureaucracy as many countries with well-managed e-governments have improved their quality of public services.
“(E-government) should stop being just an idea. No more theories, no more comparative studies. We should start practising it,” Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reforms Asman Abnur said this week.
The data revolution has permeated beyond the closeted realm of computer science into becoming a lynchpin of public policy-making. Data in all of its buzzy forms (big data, little data, open data) are transforming the face of public governance into a digital one. With the dawn of the data revolution comes digital innovation. But effective implementation and integration of digital innovation in support of more effective governance is not without its significant challenges.
Indonesia’s story of digital innovation in the public sphere is an excitingly recent one. In 2014, national legislative and presidential elections – data heavy and dripping with significance for the direction of democratic governance – prompted the creation of digital platforms such as Kawal Pemilu, as well as the country’s first governance-inspired hackathon, Code for Vote – all of which facilitated public participation in elections beyond merely voting.
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