Informating Public Governance

Abstract

This treatise explores the possibilities and constraints to informate public governance. Informating as used in this context refers to the ability to technically control / steer the core provision of public governance by means of information technology, rather than steering public governance through political policies. Thus informating governance is about technology-enabled direct control of public service provision, in contrast to electronic or digital governance, which is about technology for government agencies. Well-established disciplinary theories from political sciences, sociology, and jurisprudence on public governance are explored to establish a foundation for understanding governance informatability, and a shared semantic context is established, to align the complex concepts of governance provision, and governance informatization. Based on thus established trans-disciplinary foundation, it is argued that a natural evolution of dedicated technological ecosystems can take place.

Roles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis Management Policies

“…The research community and policymakers of governments and health management policies were unable to pay enough attention to the roles of high-techs in healthcare and adopt and benefit from them rapidly. Nevertheless, public administration research has included some valuable perspectives on governments' position in implementing and managing new innovations of digital technology (Paulin, 2017;Ben Rehouma, 2019;Dickinson, 2018). Simon (1965) highlighted the significance of qualified data as a backbone of the decision-making process.…”