E-rulemaking: Information Technology and the Regulatory Process: New Directions in Digital Government Research

Electronic rulemaking, or e-rulemaking, offers the potential to overcome some of the informational challenges associated with developing regulations. E-rulemaking refers to the use of digital technologies in the development and implementation of regulations. The use of these technologies may help streamline and improve regulatory management, such as by helping agency staff retrieve and analyze vast quantities of information from diverse sources. By taking better advantage of advances in digital technologies, agencies might also be able to increase the public\u27s access to and involvement in rulemaking. Part I of this article details the rulemaking process, outlining the procedures agencies must currently follow in developing new regulations and highlighting some of the problems generally associated with rulemaking. Part II considers ways that information technology may be able to improve the rulemaking process, as well as discusses some of the chief goals, choices, and challenges associated with e-rulemaking. Part III presents a cross-disciplinary agenda for research intended to contribute to e-rulemaking\u27s long-term potential for improving government regulation and enhancing the management and legitimacy of the rulemaking process

Directions for the development of local self-government in the digital era

The article examines the main directions of the development of local self-government in the digital age. The author of the article emphasizes the need to endow government bodies with new requirements and proposes possible directions for creating information platforms for interaction between the population and government bodies

Directions for the development of local self-government in the digital era

The article examines the main directions of the development of local self-government in the digital age. The author of the article emphasizes the need to endow government bodies with new requirements and proposes possible directions for creating information platforms for interaction between the population and government bodies

New Directions in Digital Government Using INSPIRE - Report from the Workshop at the INSPIRE Conference 2017

Digital government in Europe is evolving rapidly, thanks to both advances in technology and the tendency for governments to establish more participative relationships with businesses and citizens. There is a drive to promote economic growth in digital businesses through the better use of data, and location data play a very important role in this. INSPIRE has created a basis for the harmonisation of location information across Europe, and is able to support some of the more important developments in digital government. Some Member States have developed integrated strategies and have provided lessons from which others may learn. Technological advances have created an immense range of opportunities through developments such as the internet of things, cloud computing and big data; however, they have also introduced challenges in terms of privacy, trust and the need for new digital skills. A workshop entitled “New Directions in Digital Government using INSPIRE” at the INSPIRE Conference 2017 aimed to explore these new directions by sharing experiences and ideas. This formed part of the ISA2 work programme, undertaken by the European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government (ELISE) project, which involves the development of frameworks and solutions to exploit the potential of location information in digital public services across Europe

The Effectiveness of Mass Marketing Communication As A Digital Logistics Tools in Promoting a New Online Public Service Platform

This paper aims to review a framework that investigate the effectiveness of mass marketing communication as a digital logistics tools toward promoting a new online public service platform “i-akaun†for Employees Provident Fund (EPF). The use of online public service platform by the government for participatory and interactive relationships is increasing today. More precisely, the descriptive nature of the study resides in its ability to explain how mass marketing communication as a digital logistics tools can promote the usage of new online service platform users regard the status performance of advertising, public relation and event as mass marketing as a digital logistics tool. A critical analysis of mass marketing communication as a digital logistics tool wheel shows it to be a checklist, a starting point in the examination on a set of mass marketing communication mix tool, but it is not as such of immense help to the decision maker and it was followed by a quantitative approach with a descriptive analysis was involve. Hence, the survey and observation are the methods that will used to collect the information and data. The analysis of communication gaps gives directions for formulating strategic decisions. In this framework, tactical decisions concern the components of the mass marketing communication as a digital logistics tools mix framework, activities, means and vehicles of communication

Reflection of eGovernance on websites of India and Russia

Governments of the developing countries have been exploring new ways to allow participation of citizens in the governance, enabled by the Internet revolution. In this paper, we have explored, through a preliminary analysis of national government web sites, the attempts of two developing nations -- India and Russia, to establish digital governance. We have used the KPMG E-Commerce maturity model, WiIIcoks eBusiness evolution model and the WebQual site analysis tool as a theoretical framework to analyse the website performance and content, as a social construct that reflects government intentions, attitudes, digital governance directions and policies.<br /

Overcoming barriers to manufacturing digitalization:Policies across EU countries

The digital transformation of manufacturing activities is expected to bring large societal benefits in terms of productivity and sustainability. However, uptake of digital technologies is slower than desirable. As a result, governments are taking action to try to overcome some of the barriers to adoption. However, the mechanisms through which government may act are quite diverse. In this paper, we compare the national strategies across the 27 countries members of the European Union. We map each country's initiative to 14 barriers to the adoption of digital technologies in manufacturing observed in the literature. We observe that most institutional efforts focus on providing funding, developing new regulatory frameworks related to data privacy and security, and creating human capital. Some known barriers to adoption observed at the firm level, such as the lack of off-the-shelf solutions, or the need for retrofitting old equipment, are largely overlooked. We do not find any relationship between the number of initiatives proposed by each country, and the country's existing level of digitalization. We conclude by proposing several policy recommendations, as well as directions for future research

The Mobile Generation: Global Transformations at the Cellular Level

Every year we see a new dimension of the ongoing Digital Revolution, which is enabling an abundance of information to move faster, cheaper, in more intelligible forms, in more directions, and across borders of every kind. The exciting new dimension on which the Aspen Institute focused its 2006 Roundtable on Information Technology was mobility, which is making the Digital Revolution ubiquitous. As of this writing, there are over two billion wireless subscribers worldwide and that number is growing rapidly. People are constantly innovating in the use of mobile technologies to allow them to be more interconnected. Almost a half century ago, Ralph Lee Smith conjured up "The Wired Nation," foretelling a world of interactive communication to and from the home that seems commonplace in developed countries today. Now we have a "Wireless World" of communications potentially connecting two billion people to each other with interactive personal communications devices. Widespead adoption of wireless handsets, the increasing use of wireless internet, and the new, on-the-go content that characterizes the new generation of users are changing behaviors in social, political and economic spheres. The devices are easy to use, pervasive and personal. The affordable cell phone has the potential to break down the barriers of poverty and accessibility previously posed by other communications devices. An entire generation that is dependant on ubiquitous mobile technologies is changing the way it works, plays and thinks. Businesses, governments, educational institutions, religious and other organizations in turn are adapting to reach out to this mobile generation via wireless technologies -- from SMS-enabled vending machines in Finland to tech-savvy priests in India willing to conduct prayers transmitted via cell phones. Cellular devices are providing developing economies with opportunities unlike any others previously available. By opening the lines of communication, previously disenfranchised groups can have access to information relating to markets, economic opportunities, jobs, and weather to name just a few. When poor village farmers from Bangladesh can auction their crops on a craigslist-type service over the mobile phone, or government officials gain instantaneous information on contagious diseases via text message, the miracles of mobile connectivity move us from luxury to necessity. And we are only in the early stages of what the mobile electronic communications will mean for mankind. We are now "The Mobile Generation." Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology. To explore the implications of these phenomena, the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program convened 27 leaders from business, academia, government and the non-profit sector to engage in three days of dialogue on related topics. Some are experts in information and communications technologies, others are leaders in the broader society affected by these innovations. Together, they examined the profound changes ahead as a result of the convergence of wireless technologies and the Internet. In the following report of the Roundtable meeting held August 1-4, 2006, J. D. Lasica, author of Darknet and co-founder of Ourmedia.org, deftly sets up, contextualizes, and captures the dialogue on the impact of the new mobility on economic models for businesses and governments, social services, economic development, and personal identity

Methods of Conveying Information to Jurors: An Evidence Review - Research Findings

Paper suggests that jurors can face considerable challenges in recalling both the evidence and the legal directions in a criminal trial and that they can struggle to understand legal directions. Eight possible methods of improving juror memory and/or understanding were identified: trial transcripts, juror note-taking, audio-visual and digital presentation methods, juror questions, pre-instruction, plain language directions, written directions and structured decision aids (routes to verdict)

ANALYSIS OF LEVEL OF THE RUSSIAN DIGITAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT

This study of the Russian digital economy development that is based on the statistical data of macro- and microeconomics for 2008-2017, regulations, orders, instructions, government programs and international organizations is represented. The ve directions of the Russian digital economy development has been analyzed, in particular, some positive trends, problems and recommendations for their solution, prospects for the formation of new industries has been oered, and the degree of information society has been evaluated. Particular attention was given to the current dicult situation with «digital inequality» in the subjects of Russian Federation, which can further inhibit the development of the digital economy of the whole country