Steven Clift
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:33:31 -0700
*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://dowire.org *** *** Headlines from top blogs: http://dowire.org/feeds *** Speaking of e-government economics here is a story out of Australia today "Public warms to online services" <http://tinyurl.com/eymvg>: ALMOST a quarter of contacts people have with federal government agencies are on the internet, according to a survey that will be released today. The federal government survey is the first of its kind to cover e- government at federal, state and local levels. It finds that 39 per cent of Australians have accessed online government services in the past 12 months. In terms of measures, I'd be interested in anything that helps us determine the most cost effective ICT choices toward various service or democratic goals. Within e-government providing access to information or encouraging democratic participation is inherently inefficient - it is the price of good governance. Democracy is the optimal inefficiency required in decision-making to make the best public choices. How do we measure that? Steven Clift http://dowire.org ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:04:22 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eGovernment Economics Project (eGEP) Workshop "Toward a European eGovernment Measurement Framework and Economic Model" July 1 2005, Brussels Hall S2, Charlemagne Building, Rue de la loi 170 The eGovernment Economics Project (eGEP), is an initiative carried out under the European Commission's Modinis programme and aims at creating a measurement framework for the evaluation of e-government impacts and outcomes. Carried out by a consortium made up of Luiss Management and RSO, eGEP aims at delivering a general measurement framework to assess the impact and performance of e-government services. The framework will include a report on the state of play of e-government performance measurement, a measurement framework model and indicators, and a measurement implementation methodology. It will be underpinned by an expenditure study - which will identify and analyse the costs of setting-up, providing and maintaining e-government services in the EU - and by an economic study presenting an economic analysis of the impacts of e-government. eGEP Workshop will gather eGovernment institutional stakeholders, experts from industry and academia, representatives of International Organisation, as well as from interested NGOs and civil society association. The workshops foresees a plenary session on the state of the art of eGovernment impact and three thematic parallel panels (the Workshop provisional agenda and aide memoire can be downloaded at http://www.rso.it/eGEP/Static/E_FWorkshop_II.asp?ST=0&page=1 ). A closing plenary session will be devoted to discussion among the participants. In case you plan to participate, you can register no later than June 27 by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] simply indicating in the subject of the mail "register me". For further information about the eGovernment Economics Project please visit the project website: http://rso.it/egep or contact Cristiano Codagnone - Project Manager - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 229 I-00186 Roma Tel: +39 06 681027013 - Fax: +39 06 6877061 ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift UK Office Hours - 1pm - 11pm - - T: 0870.340.1266 Join my Democracies Online Newswire: http://dowire.org *** Past Messages, to Subscribe: http://dowire.org *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** New RSS XML Feed Available: *** http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/maillist.xml