Consulting the British Public in the Digital Age: Emerging Synergies and Tensions in the Government 2.0 Landscape

2013 ◽  
pp. 185-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shefali Virkar
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
The Government

Academic Libraries in Partnership With the Government Publishing Office

2020 ◽  
pp. 1411-1434
Author(s):  
Barbara Costello
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Government Printing ◽  
Government Information ◽  
National Plan ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Information Preservation ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Government

The implementation of the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-40) brought the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) fully into the digital age. The transition has created expected and unexpected changes to the way the Government Publishing Office (GPO) administers the FDLP and, in particular, to the relationships between the GPO and academic depository libraries. Innovative partnerships, use of emerging technologies to manage and share collections, and greater flexibility on the part of the GPO have given academic depository libraries a prominent and proactive role within the depository program. Newly announced initiatives from the GPO, the National Plan for Access to U.S. Government Information and the Federal Information Preservation Network (FIPNet) potentially could either increase academic depository libraries' collaboration with the FDLP and the likelihood that they will remain in the program, or accelerate the rate at which academic depositories are dropping depository status.

Colossus, Codebreaking, and the Digital Age

Colossus ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Budiansky
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

The paths that took men and women from their ordinary lives and deposited them on the doorstep of the odd profession of cryptanalysis were always tortuous, accidental, and unpredictable. The full story of the Colossus, the pioneering electronic device developed by the Government Code and Cypher School (GC & CS) to break German teleprinter ciphers in the Second World War, is fundamentally a story of several of these accidental paths converging at a remarkable moment in the history of electronics—and of the wartime urgency that set these men and women on these odd paths. Were it not for the wartime necessity of codebreaking, and were it not for particular statistical and logical properties of the teleprinter ciphers that were so eminently suited to electronic analysis, the history of computing might have taken a very different course. The fact that Britain’s codebreakers cracked the high-level teleprinter ciphers of the German Army and Luftwaffe high command during the Second World War has been public knowledge since the 1970s. But the recent declassification of new documents about Colossus and the teleprinter ciphers, and the willingness of key participants to discuss their roles more fully, has laid bare as never before the technical challenges they faced—not to mention the intense pressures, the false steps, and the extraordinary risks and leaps of faith along the way. It has also clarified the true role that the Colossus machines played in the advent of the digital age. Though they were neither general-purpose nor stored-program computers themselves, the Colossi sparked the imaginations of many scientists, among them Alan Turing and Max Newman, who would go on to help launch the post-war revolution that ushered in the age of the digital, general-purpose, stored-program electronic computer. Yet the story of Colossus really begins not with electronics at all, but with codebreaking; and to understand how and why the Colossi were developed and to properly place their capabilities in historical context, it is necessary to understand the problem they were built to solve, and the people who were given the job of solving it.

scholarly journals A Study on E-Governance In India- A Simplifying Solution to Government Nationals and Organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 508-510
Author(s):  
Krishna Kulin Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
The Government

Today in the 21st century, the digitalization is the global trend, and it is the digital age. Today technology is a boon and has removed the global borders and has made the whole globe a small village. Technology has made the things easier, quicker, transparent, faster, efficient and so there is a need to adopt digitalization in every areas. E-Governance also known as Electronic Governance is the use of Information and Communications Technology for providing the government services to the nationals and organizations, for exchange of information transactions and other various services etc. and making the rules and procedure transparent. This Research paper focuses on the E-Governance in India which is a simplifying solution to all i.e. Government, nationals and organizations.

scholarly journals Imbalance Identity in E-Sports News Intersectionality on Covid-19 Pandemic Situation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Rustono Farady Marta ◽  
Alvin Alexander Prasetya ◽  
Bella Laurensia ◽  
Stevani Stevani ◽  
Kenn Lazuardhi Syarnubi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sports News ◽  
Digital Sports

 The COVID-19 situation is a moment that homogenizes everyone's efforts to reduce outdoor activities, so a space of self-actualization is required to trigger creative skills and sportsmanship. The most qualified alternative to answer these needs for everyone in the digital age is the E-sport. Trying to take advantage of this opportunity, Bubu Gaming, as an Indonesian digital sports games marketer, initiated "LiveStream Aid 2020" with the theme "PlayFromHome, Stay Safe, Donate." Tirto.id and Kompas.com covered the two-day event. However, researchers interrogate those two news frames and discover different perspectives. Guided by Entman Framing Analysis with the theory of intersectionality, the results obtained indicate the imbalance of identity in those news frames. Tirto.id viewed from the category of structural intersectionality and built the reader's opinion that the government, through Sandiaga Uno, supports these activities. On the other hand, Kompas.com put the name of Pevita Pearce without adequate narrative so that it can be categorized as representational intersectionality.

scholarly journals Technocracy as a challenge to political freedom in the digital age

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Yevhen Laniuk
Keyword(s):  
Political Representation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

The government of the former Prime-Minister of Ukraine Olexiy Honcharuk named itself “the government of technocrats”. This shows that the concept of technocracy becomes attractive in Ukraine. Technocracy is the form of government, which attempts to distance itself from political representation or affiliation with a particular ideology. Technocrats derive their legitimacy from their skills and expertise, and focus primarily on problem-solving and optimizing the society’s useful functions. Technocracy has always been a promising political concept. The Republic by Plato can be regarded as the first attempt to substantiate a technocratic society, in which power proceeds from the expertise of its dominant elite. Technocracy was very appealing in the industrial age, when scientific management of factories inspired the idea that society at large could be governed by similar methods. Today, digital technologies and Big Data reinvigorate the technocratic project. In this article it has been shown that technocracy, if taken too far, can be antithetical to liberal democracy and its core value – political freedom. Technocratic society resembles a corporation run by the board of directors rather than a republic of citizens. We have pointed out the factors, which make it appealing in the modern world. We then have analyzed the ideas of Howard Scott, the founder of the movement Technocracy Inc., who advocated this political model in the industrial age, and Parag Khanna, who has made similar claims about the benefits of technocracy in the digital age. It has been proven that both these thinkers share the same illiberal mindset including the common faith in the applicability of scientific methods of social management without regard for popular votes and opinions, admiration of autocratic powers of the day, and disregard for democratic procedures, which they see as hurdles on the path toward economic well-being and political domination. Finally, we asked the question: if the challenge to political freedom in Ukraine proceeds from technocracy, will it be defended in the same way as during the three Ukrainian Maidans (1990, 2004, 2014)? We deliberately leave this question unanswered, hoping that the answer will be investigated in future publications.

Academic Libraries in Partnership with the Government Publishing Office

2016 ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Barbara Costello
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Government Printing ◽  
Government Information ◽  
National Plan ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Information Preservation ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Government

The implementation of the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-40) brought the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) fully into the digital age. The transition has created expected and unexpected changes to the way the Government Publishing Office (GPO) administers the FDLP and, in particular, to the relationships between the GPO and academic depository libraries. Innovative partnerships, use of emerging technologies to manage and share collections, and greater flexibility on the part of the GPO have given academic depository libraries a prominent and proactive role within the depository program. Newly announced initiatives from the GPO, the National Plan for Access to U.S. Government Information and the Federal Information Preservation Network (FIPNet) potentially could either increase academic depository libraries' collaboration with the FDLP and the likelihood that they will remain in the program, or accelerate the rate at which academic depositories are dropping depository status.

Networked insurgence and an anti-electoral democracy: Bangkok space 2014–2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110509
Author(s):  
Ross King
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City ◽  
Rich History

Bangkok presents a rich history of popular uprisings directed against its periodic military dictatorships. Then, in 2006 and 2010 there were uprisings of increasing theatricality, playing to a hoped-for global audience, but now against democratically elected governments. January 2014 saw this insurrectional performance art raised to a new plateau where the city itself became the stage and the portrayed villain no longer the government, but government as such— against electoral democracy and for some vague, imagined ideal that might be seen as post-electoral democracy based in civil society rather than political parties. An ensuing military-drafted constitution built on this rejection, leading to manipulated elections in 2019 and a new, quasi-elected, monarchist-military government scarcely understandable outside the context of the dark euphoria of 2014. Then in 2020 the tide of insurgence turned again, against the military hegemony but also against the monarchy—a seismic shift. The paper’s focus is on these events of 2014 and their 2020 denouement, also on their implications for both the space and the form of the city in a digital age.

The Music Modernization Act

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Gorgoni
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government

This chapter is a songwriter’s essay on the Music Modernization Act and how it attempts to address the future of the songwriting profession in the digital age. Although the advent of streaming has resuscitated the music industry writ large, songwriters—unlike artists and record labels—are regulated by the government in ways that have stopped them from receiving their fair share of the growing pie. The author explains from a songwriter’s perspective how the MMA was designed to address these issues and assesses its strengths and weaknesses, the compromises that led to its passage, and the challenges going forward.

scholarly journals Elite in social networks: new forms of feedback in the digital age

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. V. Kryshtanovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government

The article presents the data of sociological research of the Russian political elite and its activity in social networks (using the example of the social network “Twitter”). The study was conducted by analyzing a database, containing information about the presence of accounts, subscriptions and the size of the audience, the content of published materials of representatives of the Russian establishment. The object of the study were the deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation and of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, senior officials of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, members of the Government of the Russian Federation, heads of Subjects of Federation . The basic indicators of the analysis of online activity of elite have been revealed, it has been analyzed how their activity in social networks affects popularity and authority of the power. The analysis of the presence on Twitter of various groups of the ruling elite (representatives of both executive and legislative bodies of power and administration of the country), their activity, the content of published texts, has been made. The index of authority, reflecting popularity of each representative of establishment in circles of ruling elite has been constructed. The method has allowed us to identify not only leaders of public opinion in a network, but also to find the most influential persons in circles of the persons making the state decisions. A significant delay of the authorities in the use of new technologies to promote their policies has been revealed. The need to develop this sector of communication between the government and society in the digital age is obvious.

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