New sovereign e-government era
Beyond e-government use path to strategic digital autonomy creation ?
The governments exploration in use of computers, communication and Internet technology to provide public services has take new direction. The path toward strategic digital autonomy, technological sovereignty and citizens privacy are all influencing e-government strategies more than ever. Governments need to shift the focus from use toward delivering sustainable value and innovations with policies. Public moneys, resources of taxpayers and futures prospects of industrial competitiveness have become essential part of policy narrative.
Use oriented e-governments are not delivering systemic societal value
Consultants, technology sales advisors and lobbyist have been innovative to deliver new versions from the original e-government policy definitions. The older version of digital policy such as Information Society and Government-to-X (G2X) have focused on information dissemination, communication, transactions, integration and participation while lacking strategic sovereignty focused industrial, innovation and education policies. The e-government X.0 have all only promoted new use focused service implementations while lacking strategic deliverables on holistic and systemic improvement of sustainability. As general understanding on systemic implication of digitalization on economy, industrial transformation and future competencies has been poor the wider implications of technology use only policy has been neglected. The technology and service "use" has led to outsourcing of local strategic skills, competencies and know-how on computers, hardware, software, systems and technical infrastructure in general. Slowly this has developed to a state where e-government policy narrative is controlled by those who control technological systems and infrastructure such as cloud. Previously promising inexpensive and open has become expensive and closed. The broad future possibilities and options has become very limited and controlled by very few computers, communication and Internet technology firms.
Strategic e-government delivering sustainable ecological, societal and economic value
e-Government strategies are vital part of modern digitally sovereign nations technology, innovation and industrial policy instruments. ?Today e-government strategies are lacking the view of appreciation of whole nation as system. The new e-government autonomy strategy is focusing on systems approach by conceiving viewing the entire nation in terms of many internal and external interrelated actions, connections and interactions, as opposed to discrete and independent government governed by various laws, rules and directives. The understanding of whole nation as e-government system helps in defining the new knowledge base for sovereign digital future.?The whole must consider also "creation" of computers, communication and Internet technology as part of long-term sustainability policy actions. Creation is the way to gain competitive advange and regain national competitiviness. ?
“Systems is not the sum of its parts, but the product of their interactions”, Ackoff 1994
In this case the nation is the systems and products are different policies and their aligned interaction. If the interactions are not systematically structured to serve entire system, poor system will beat the small and good improvement intension. Nation which has degraded to low value adding "user" society will have severe challenges when pursuing toward sovereignty from vast technological strappings. The only policy, that survives in attack on system, is the one that can prevent system from being driven to chaos, implementing suboptimal choices and forced to limited policy actions. The sustainable systems policies focusing on whole and long-term value delivery are the ones which the new strategic e-government policies should be grounded. As old e-government policies are only focusing on ends we must rewrite the policies to embrace creations of sustainable means for our own digital autonomy, technological sovereignty and citizens privacy today. Future of e-government can be ours - but it can be lost very easily in the battle of free will and future.
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