Connecting eGovernment to real government - The failure of the UN eParticipation index

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6846 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 26-37

  Grönlund, Åke ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Democracy; eGovernment; electronic government; eParticipation; index; UN; UNDESA

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; E-GOVERNMENT; E-PARTICIPATION; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; INDEX; UN; UNDESA;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 80052712773     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22878-0_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. Capgemini.: The User Challenge: Benchmarking The Supply of Online Public Services. In: 7th Measurement, European Commission Directorate General for Information Society and Media (September 2007)
2. West, D.: Improving Technology Utilization in Electronic Government around the World. Governance Studies at Brookings.(2008), http://www.brookings. edu/.../2008/0817-egovernment-west.aspx(retrieved February 5, 2011)
3. UNDESA: Leveraging E-government at a Time of Financial and Economic Crisis - 2010. United Nations e-Government Survey. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2010) ISBN: 978-92-1-123183-0, http://www2.unpan. org/egovkb/global-reports/10report.htm (retrieved January 15, 2011)
4. Sanford, C., Rose, J.: Characterizing eParticipation. International Journal of Information Management 27, 406-421 (2007)
5. Grönlund, Å.: State of the art in e-Gov research: surveying conference publications. International Journal of Electronic Government Research 1(4), 1-25 (2005)
6. Grönlund, Å.: ICT is not participation is not democracy - eParticipation development models revisited. In: Macintosh, A., Tambouris, E. (eds.) ePart 2009. LNCS, vol. 5694, pp. 12-23. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)
7. Heeks, R., Bailur, S.: Analyzing e-government research: Perspectives, philosophies, theories, methods, and practice. Government Information Quarterly 24, 243-265 (2007)
8. Medaglia, R.: The challenged identity of a field: The state of the art of eParticipation research. Information Polity 12, 169-181 (2007)
9. Sæbø, Ø., Rose, J., Flak, L.S.: The shape of eParticipation: Characterizing an emerging research field. Government Information Quarterly 25, 400-428 (2007)
10. Grönlund, Å.: Ten years of E-government: The 'End of history" and new beginning. In: Wimmer, M.A., Chappelet, J.-L., Janssen, M., Scholl, H.J. (eds.) EGOV 2010. LNCS, vol. 6228, pp. 13-24. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
11. Arnstein, S.R.: A Ladder of Citizen Participation. JAIP 35(4), 216-224 (1969)
12. UNDESA: UN E-Government Survey 2008 - From E-Government to Connected Governance - (2008) ISBN 978-92-1-123174-8, http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/ groups/public/.../un/unpan028607.pdf (retrieved February 23, 2011)
13. EIU Democracy index 2010: Democracy in retreat. A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (2010), http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy-Index- 2010-web.pdf (retrieved February 12, 2011)
14. ONI : The Open Net Initiative. (2011), http://opennet.net/ (retrieved February 28, 2011)