The eaGov blog

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

These days im doing an assignment on NPM i Denmark. Im looking at four historic documents describing the strategy for eGovernment i Denmark. In addition Ill be carry out some interviews, with key players/stakeholders in this regard, namely: Lone Dybkjær member of parliament and front woman on the “Dybkjær rapport” from 1994 pressing the go-button for eGov i DK, Lars Frelle, head of office in the ministry of finances, working on the pan-public sector strategy for eGov and chief of the digital taskforce, and finally Rachid El Mousti ex-employee/senior consultant in the ITST, expert on NPM as well as DEG. 

The key area of interest is whether of not NPM is the right governance strategy for the public sector.. or would it be a good thing is somebody found a new paradigme. My thesis, for now, is that NPM is old news or a dead fish in the water (Dunleavy) and our beloved public sector needs a revitalization of some sort. DEG could be a great answer.

Next week Ill be attending the 6th Eastern European eGovernment Days: 23 – 25 April 2008 in Prague with my boss.  We will be presenting our paper “How web2.0 can benefit government”. This is my first conference presenting a scientific paper, and I anticipate to do a bit of networking with some of the people who have been in the business of making government more efficient, effective and user centric. From the list of participants I can see that there will be attending some exciting people from alle over the world – so Ill be taking notes and discussing eGovernment for en interesting week. Also Ill try to do a bit of blogging form there – filling the gaps with some reflective work about the subject.. and doing a bit of sightseeing of Prag.

Also Im still curious to know if you have some experiences or knowledge about New Public Management or (as I see it) the new paradigme / optics of doing eGovernment, namely, Digital Era Governance, as proposed by Patrick Dunleavy et.al.

This video is very funny – brought to my attention yesterday in my EA-class.