CEDI Conference – presenting

There is a chance that my boss and I will present our paper “How Can Government benefit from web2.0?” at the CEDI conference in december.

More info when its available…

 

 

Web2.0 paper: “Sessions best paper” @ WMSCI 08 Florida

My paper that i co-wrote/researched for together with my boss Søren Duus Østergaard titled “How can Government benefit from Web2.0?” was presented at 2008 WMSCI conference in Florida in June, was was awarded “Sessions Best Paper“. See the diploma here

In my other assignment about NPM (New Public Management) I try to discuss the enhanced web tools (web2.0) and the way they can challenge old mindsets and put forward an improved, along with a much inexpensive, value proposition to the public sector. In this regard, I think the acknowledge is a step closer to this goal .. but there is a long way to go still.

EIF in Bruxelles

So on wednesday is my trip to Bruxelles, and it is a city i havnt been in before. Looking forward to going there, gathering data for my master thesis, and hopefully getting an interview with some of the central people.. maybe.

As of now I have a lot of unanswered questions, that need to be adressed. For instance where are the challenges in the EIF work, in order to get the member countries to use it. Seems like the benefits are obvious. Ought the framework to be compulsory in order to reach the declared i2010 goal on interoperability “enhancing devices and platforms that ‘talk to one another’ and services that are portable from platform to platform“? Can it be done at alle due to member states sovereignty? Or should it be put out there and hopefully, over time, be the default framework, the cross-country systems could be modelled after?

These are some of my questions, that I think Id be looking for answers to..

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My holiday is in a week – three weeks with the family, ooking forward to it. Hope you enjoy your summer

NPM assignment – finished

Today was exam at CBS and I recieved the grade “A”/10 (or maybe a B?) and Im happy about it.

Relax a bit and then back to my Master Thesis.

EIF-day at the EU?

Just found this:

“The European Commission, Directorate General for Informatics (IDABC), is organising a special event aiming to present and inform on the new version of the European Interoperability Framework. This EIF Info Day is to take place on 25 June 2008 in Brussels.”

Status: Im going!

New iPhone – so how about eGov and mobile devices?

The new iphone 3G is out and as a Apple Fanboy i allready love it! There are the 3G, the longer batterylife, the software version 2.0 etc. And now 60 countries carry it. Most of Europe is covered and many citizens will carry on of these small computers, that they really are even more than an phone. And with the new “openness”-strategy from Apple, letting developers with app’s in, there will be a huge market for this phone, as with many other smartphones.

To sum up: many smart phones in the hands of citizens, new opportunities and great ways of connecting and socialising etc.

I guess there is some smart services in the pipeline from governments, taking part in the revolution/evolution (depending on how you sees it). Of course every government will give their citizens the possibility to connect with government on a mobile device/platform when these are penetrating the marketplace, and will spread viraly/fast Im sure. Im sure that there will be (government-)developers who will put great services, or at least some private, who will come up with ways to mix gov-services with “what do I know”-services, for this mobile platform. Or ..?

In Denmark, where I am located, the strategy for mobile devices is none-existing. There is no such thing as government services directed at these devices. I really have no idea why this is, do you?

Being the proud owner of an iPhone, enjoying the great free web-based services for this device, I can’t help wonder, where the great Government (mobile-)services are for my iPhone. Where’s the will to take hold on this?

Featured article ?

I am contemplating whether I should turn my NPM assignment into some sort of essay, or a feature article, in order to try to create a debate about the topic, which I see as very relevant. Where, in which media, should I try to give it a go? Would it do any good at all?

Many questions, and many thoughts – but no answers so far.

NPM assignment – final version

Today I turned my New Public Management assignment in. You can find it here, in a (DANISH) censored version.

Be happy to hear your feedback, if any.

 

 

 

NPM vs. eGovernment = pessimist vs. optimist ???

The assignment about NPM is progressing and i have arrived at a place where im puzzled about my NPM theory. The thing is, that it seems that NPM derives from a notion that the public sector isn’t doing their jobs in a propper maner and that it is too big ..enter private sector style management/marketization/de-bureaucratization. The public sector is too big and lazy and too bureaucratic. Therefore IT is the tool to minimize, rationaliz and make everything transparent, for everybody to see the in-efficient work of the public sector. Really this is a mistrust in the public bureau.

EGovernment derives from another notion, differentiate it self on different points, that is growing from the idea that IT is capable of democratizing a sector, meaning giving it back to the citizens, including them in various processes. I guess this i said to be a evolution/modernization of the public sector as we knew it, now applied with modern tools, processes reflecting the new paradigme that the internet brought to the world, feeding on the will of the people to take part. 

My question to you, reader: is this a “correct” way of picture it og is it too controversial? Im aware of the parts where the two notions share common grounds. Is this to black and white? Or is it simply the case, that the two can’t live without one another? Maybe the one is alive due to the other.. could it be?

If this is somewhat the case, I see why P. Dunleavy et.al (Digital Era Governance) and others say that NPM is “a dead fish in the water”, and that we need to look further .. to get to a governance model capable of holding the emerging technologies and their benefits.

 

Master thesis page ..

For now, I have a page designated for the topics related to my master thesis on interoperabilty.