Re: [GKD] E-Governance Is Not Getting The Job Done
Yes, E-governance provides an opportunity for 'big organizations' to control, but it also provides an opportunity to empower local governance if neighborhoods and rural areas are helped to use it. Networking, as Jeremy Rifkin proposes in THE EUROPEAN DREAM, could interconnect not only NGO's but could interconnect and empower local and regional e-governance to work together as a new style of global governance institution. I am skeptical about possibilities for reforming and restructuring the United Nations, but such networking (as now interconnects some legislators in different countries) could be a powerful parallel structure to the UN, both counterbalancing it and supporting the UN to do good things that 'big organizations' might not want. Parker Rossman is exploring online in a draft textbook, free to the world, how to use the Internet to provide health care and learning for everyone on the planet. http://ecolecon.missouri.edu/globalresearch/index.html On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, Peter Burgess wrote: Kris Dev made some interesting points in recent messages. He has observed that one of the fundamental reasons that big organizations, like governments, big international multilateral organizations and international NGOs have embraced E-Governance is to control more and service less. This is a challenging remark. Big organizations have failed to embrace transparency and accountability that empowers people and sets the stage for a high quality of service, and instead, are working on strategies that make more and more control possible, while doing rather little for people and their communities. E-governance should not separate people and community-based civil society from the big institutions, but help make people and community based organizations more effective in progressing socio-economic development. Instead of ICT being implemented on top of the people and the community it should be implemented with the people and in the community. ..snip... ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/
[GKD] E-Governance Is Not Getting The Job Done
Dear Colleagues, Kris Dev made some interesting points in recent messages. He has observed that one of the fundamental reasons that big organizations, like governments, big international multilateral organizations and international NGOs have embraced E-Governance is to control more and service less. This is a challenging remark. Big organizations have failed to embrace transparency and accountability that empowers people and sets the stage for a high quality of service, and instead, are working on strategies that make more and more control possible, while doing rather little for people and their communities. E-governance should not separate people and community-based civil society from the big institutions, but help make people and community based organizations more effective in progressing socio-economic development. Instead of ICT being implemented on top of the people and the community it should be implemented with the people and in the community. The Tr-Ac-Tool (formerly E-Administration) addresses this issue head on. With a good system, an organization can focus on providing service excellence, and on having the data that facilitates transparency and ensures accountability. In the recent experience of Tr-Ac-Net, lots of people want to see excellence in transparency and accountability, but suprisingly few big organizations are interested at all in such excellence. This is a terrible signal that these big organizations have too much to hide, and cannot stand a public light shining on their internal fund flows, their systems, procedures and performance. Some organizations are actively working on better transparency and accountability. More are talking about it. But not enough are heavily committed to the idea ... and at the moment the prognosis is that big organizations are quite happy with the status quo and being able to operate with virtually no transparency and accountability. Tr-Ac-Net is having an interesting time trying to track Tsunami fund flows ... there is talk about transparency and accountability ... but not much actual sharing of the information needed to have it. Tr-Ac-Net will keep trying. It is too important to stop. For more information please contact myself or Kris Dev. Sincerely, Peter Burgess Peter Burgess, Tr-Ac-Net in New York [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris Dev, Tr-Ac-Net in Chennai [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/
