Indeed, following the protracted and progressive emergence from a strictly productivist society and then consumer society, underlying this strengthening of social cohesion, there is a more general desire for a modern society based on well-being, a society going back to more essential human needs, giving priority to human development once again.
The United States ranks fifth worldwide in rankings (.pdf) that include the extent to which countries have online presences "that are the conduit for service flow from government to citizen and consequently a reflection of attention to governance processes," the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs says. Ahead of the United States are South Korea, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Denmark.
Weiterlesen: E-gov should emphasize integrated services, says U.N.
But too often these programs tend to become lengthy letters to Santa Claus - thus not having the needed focus on what is really important and also isolating public sector services and processes. Isolation does not make sense as the public sector part is only a fraction of what is needed to satisfy the citizen's need in specific contents.
The framework proposes a set of globally comparative e-government core indicators to support the efforts of countries worldwide in the collection of data to measure the use of ICT in government service delivery.
The document was adopted in Mauritius December 8, 2011.
Weiterlesen: UNECA, WB, ITU adopt framework to measure governments’ ICT-based service delivery
This is the time of year when government IT experts start discussing top priorities for the coming year.
A few days ago, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) in the US released a list of what it considers to be the top 10 state government IT "Priority Strategies for Management Processes and Solutions" for the coming year. NASCIO's list of priorities are shown below, in bold, with comments and ideas from our colleagues at IDC shown directly below each line item.
Weiterlesen: NASCIO's top government IT priorities list in focus