ICT for eGovernment (Visionary approach)

Dr. András GáborCorvinus University of Budapest

Hungary

eGovernment – Policy making

• Information Society has been a long-standing objective of the EU

• Significant progress can be and should be made by – developing an integrated and inclusive policy approach that – involves all relevant state and civil society actors in the – design, implementation and evaluation of policy initiatives

• eGovernment policy is a dynamic set of – regulations and incentives – provision and absorption– providing services

• Dynamism comes from the – changing regulatory environment and is – facilitated by a negotiated and mutually accepted quality of service for – citizens, businesses, and non-business civil entities

Policy modelling• Complex interactions across the interfaces between policy makers and actors of

civil society complicates the forecast of the impact of the different policy measures.

• The goal of policy modelling, is to find a short-, medium- and long-term dynamic equilibrium between policy decisions and civil society responses.

• Policy modelling should cover several areas, such as – budgetary issues, – administrative, public and constitutional law, – data privacy, adoption of open source software, taxation, data privacy, interoperability, – cross-border activities, – energy, environment, and other non-pecuniary dimensions.

• Most challenging elements of policy modelling is to find the – optimal portfolio among community and private engagement, – making the right choices between the supply or demand driven development. – good balance between the user absorption capacity and technology-driven

development of information service penetration.

E-government holistic frameworkRequirements

• Adapt to changing environments • Reflect civil society needs• Legal barriers and enablers • Exploit all the information originating from the expression of the

“crowd” of the citizens• Regulation of the governance process• Facilitate the coordination and decision making• Identification of trends • Drafting of policies• Supporting tools for policy modelling

Policy Making Life Cycle

Policy Making in the Attention Society