Education:EGovernance

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Contents 1 Outline and objectives 2 From eGovernment to eGovernance 3 Governance 4 The meaning of good governance 5 The elements of eGovernance

Outline and objectives

• Definition of eGovernance
• eDemocracy
• Technologies for enabling eDemocracy
• eParticipation

From eGovernment to eGovernance

• eGovernance consists in using ICTs to facilitate good policy-making, while e-government is concerned with automating procedures, mainly for the administrative area (tactical level), as a way to carry out the policies framed in deliberation
• eGovernance brings together a set of ICTs solutions for better democratic processes: The problem is “how to govern” (strategic level) so as to engage the participation of those making up the socioeconomic fabric of the territory in which a public administration operates

Toward a federated e-governance and an integration among structures

Governance

• “Managing a country through actively involving all of its people, at all levels, through systems which allow them to express their needs and rights openly and freely. Governance includes the complex mechanisms, processes and institutions the citizens and the groups utilize to articulate their interests, mediate their differences and exercise their rights.”

• Good Governance
  • participatory
  • transparent
  • accountable
  • equitable
  • promotes the rule of law

“Governance includes the State but transcends it by taking into account the private sector and civil society. All three are critical for development."

(http://www.unpan.org/)

(From:United Nations Development Program, www.undppogar.org/publications/governance/aa/goodgov.pdf)

The meaning of good governance

• Openness and communicability – simplifying the language
• Participation – facilitating the participation of all social, economic, and political forces
• Accountability – Every public administration must state its institutional role, tasks, and objectives; explain the steps involved in the process; and work to accomplish the same objectives.
• Effectiveness – The public administration’s policies must be framed keeping into account the needs of users and of the wider socioeconomic environment.
• Coherence – The public administration’s initiatives must be consistent with the policies framed.

(From: EC White Paper, European Governance, COM(2001), 428/final, 2002)

The elements of eGovernance

• Actors: Public administrations, local authorities, administrative agencies, private entities, associations, organized groups of citizens, non-citizens, enterprises, and non-enterprises
• Users: All the actors who use the system and its tools
• Point: Governance involves the participation of governing and opposition groups working together to frame strategic policies with which to effectively and collaboratively manage a territory
• Tools: Computer and Web technologies
• Objective: To facilitate the democratic process, achieve broad participation in framing policies and activities, foster social cohesion, and set up new governance models making it possible for the different actors to have a role in decision-making and compare views and solutions in that process
• The digital divide: Overcome the divide and enable access for all - eInclusion