The Prospects for Cyberocracy (Revisited)

Ronfeldt, David; Varda, Danielle M.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1325809

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“…This was seen to occur in other departments as well. This situation has been logically captured in Ronfeldt and Varda (2008) by tracking down a study of waste and inefficiency in the US federal government’s information management system during 1984. Peter Grace (1984), the head of this Presidential Commission, was appalled ‘by the obsolescence, incompatibility, and duplication of com- puterized information systems’ combined with personnel problems and low-quality information (Ronfeldt & Varda, 2008, pp.…”

Section: Role Of Governments In Building An Innovative Economymentioning

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Revisiting Innovations in Governance

Singh

2022

Indian Journal of Public Administration

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Innovations, reforms and reinvention drives are overlapping strategies which arrive during organisational crisis when public sector capacity falls short of addressing a catastrophe. They come as a natural consequence of survival design or a tenacious need to outdo an opponent in a competition. However, some may even come through errors of the past. Innovations shrink both time and budget while becoming an agent for the three ‘Rs’ of recognition, replication and research. Much research, such as studies on administrative innovations at Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances’ (DARPG) best administrative practices research on innovation has been undertaken since the coming of globalisation which brought through a combination of computers and information technology, on one hand, and re-conceptualisation of inter-agency collaboration and network research, on the other. Innovations do not bypass traditional public sector values of equity, fairness and probity to achieve enhanced efficiency as these become elements of sustainability and continuity in them. Government has a role to play in public sector innovations in facilitating freedom to innovate, in generating an environment of scientific curiosity, democratic freedom and decentralised governance. A spirit of entrepreneurship is currently being treated as a gateway to innovations and the mushrooming of startups as unleashing of innovations which may transform the manner in which public administration works in India. However, failed startups set at rest the innovation theory. Innovations need certain essentials for their success and continuity.

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Revisiting Innovations in Governance

Singh

2022

Indian Journal of Public Administration

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“…The general Internet-Constitution debate reveals three predominant interpretations of e-government phenomenon: e-government as a principally new form of government which already strayed beyond bureaucracy realizing the Antic ideal of direct democracy; [1][2] e-government as a new technical tool which could be appropriate and used by different actors and by the traditional bureaucratic government among them [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] and e-government as the dangerous way toward a new type of bureaucratic control over society -the new Leviathan. [11][12][13] All three interpretations are based on technological aspects of the problem -the evaluation of the role and impact of e-government machinery on social structure, the reconfiguration of social roles in the traditional hierarchy of governance. The phenomenon of overestimation of practices.…”

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confidence: 99%