Engaging the Community Through E-Democracy in South Australia

State Government ◽

Best Practice ◽

South Australia ◽

For Profit ◽

Leading Role ◽

Not For Profit ◽

Practice Models ◽

This chapter examines the spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in South Australia. It starts by assessing South Australia’s leading role in the adoption of democratic reforms in the nineteenth century. It then suggests that there is not the same enthusiasm for the more contemporary reforms found in the implementation of e-democracy. The chapter draws from an appraisal of internet based initiatives by government, not for profit and private agencies and sets these against best practice models for community engagement. Based on this research it concludes that there is little originality and initiative in the formal State Government sites and that there is little designed to foster e-democracy. What innovation there is can be found in more local and specific community based applications of ICT.

Aplikasi Perpustakaan On-line: (Kajian Awal Layanan On-line Perpustakaan Perguruan Tinggi Menggunakan Aplikasi Go-jek©)

Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi ◽

10.22146/bip.13044 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 62

Author(s):

Syukron Syukron

Keyword(s):

Academic Library ◽

Information Resource ◽

Library Services ◽

For Profit ◽

Not For Profit ◽

Application Model ◽

On Line

Library is an information resource centre that provides intangible services. Library is also known as a not-for-profit-organization that provides places for reading. Libraries in Indonesia have not been professionally administered. But now library institutions at all levels, including those at the academic institutions, begin to revamp, continue the scientific tradition, develop the nation's civilization to save and store book collection in various subjects and languages with the help if information and communication technologies (ICT). The study explores the potentials that can be collaborated between library services and its information strength and the networked application such go-jek. The author identified the correlation between go-jek application model and academic library services. The study showed there was mutual need for both sides that could be collaborated.

Citizens to Netizens

Electronic Government ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-947-2.ch114 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1522-1536

Author(s):

Kate Alport ◽

Clement Macintyre

Keyword(s):

State Government ◽

Web Sites ◽

Best Practice ◽

South Australia ◽

The Arts ◽

Rapid Economic Growth ◽

Growth And Change ◽

The Government

This article explores whether information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used to their full capacity by government agencies in South Australia to engage citizens in interaction with the government. It surveys government and private sector Web sites to determine “best practice” for civic engagement and describes several innovations that offer promising models for e-democracy. In South Australia, it appears that the movement towards innovative e-inclusion is driven from the bottom up—from Local Government Councils, the arts industries, and the education sectors, in the main. The State Government has a well developed e-presence, but much of it is concentrated on the provision of information rather than the fostering of e-democracy. The article examines these trends and questions whether the government is giving the appropriate priority to the citizen-state relationship in an era characterized by rapid economic growth and change.

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development - Emerging Issues and Prospects in African E-Government ◽

E-Governance and Natural Hazards in Mozambique

10.4018/978-1-4666-6296-4.ch016 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 253-268 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Avelino Mondlane ◽

Karin Hasson ◽

Oliver Popov

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Strategic Planning ◽

Local Governments ◽

Best Practice ◽

Good Governance ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

The Impact

Strategic planning is a decisive process toward sustainable development for any organization. Mozambique has developed many tools toward good governance, among which Poverty Alleviation Strategy Paper (PARPA) is an umbrella. PARPA includes different key decisive segments of society, particularly the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as the pool for development. This chapter investigates to what extent e-Governance, particularly the development of strategies based on ICTs, can contribute to minimize the impact of floods at local governments by addressing best practice and decision-making process. The authors address backcasting methodology as an approach to consider in a participatory strategic planning for long-term decision-making processes. They use Chókwe District as a showcase where e-governance has an impact in mitigating and preventing the impact of floods.

From Pebble to Avalanche: How Information and Communications Technologies Empowered Underprivileged Actors Through Ages

The Journal of Community Informatics ◽

10.15353/joci.v10i1.2751 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Piotr Konieczny

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Review Literature ◽

Information And Communications Technologies ◽

Social Actors ◽

For Profit ◽

Communications Technologies ◽

International Social

Accompanied by growing literacy, information and communication technologies (ICT) have empowered states, organizations, but also – and perhaps most crucially – individuals, creating a more liberal and democratic environment. While also used as tools of social control, those technologies have often been used by revolutionaries and other agents of social change, aiding not only the surveillance state and for-profit organizations, but also individuals and non-state social actors, like social movements. In this paper I review literature on literacy and ICT, and, backed up by the results of a recent survey of international social movements, I conclude that at this pattern of empowerment, traceable throughout the human history, is continuing with the most recent information revolution.

Moving with Time and Strategy

Cases on Developing Countries and ICT Integration ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-117-1.ch014 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 146-161

Author(s):

Sandeep Bhaskar

Keyword(s):

Development Strategy ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Action Plan ◽

Sustainable Community Development ◽

For Profit ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

The Face ◽

This chapter presents evidence of using information and communication technologies (ICTs) towards the goal of sustainable community development. It argues that the biggest impediment to the growth of communities in the developing world is a lack of information and a fair incentive system, both of which can be addressed through ICTs. A three pronged action plan comprising of a development strategy, an information strategy, and a technology strategy is proposed towards this effect. The paper also showcases how a for-profit business, ITC Limited, transformed the face of agriculture in some parts of India, and how this model can be replicated in other parts of the world. It concludes with a description of the agricultural sector in Bangladesh and show how lessons drawn from the Indian case can be applied to Bangladesh and other developing countries.

Pregnant women’s use of information and communications technologies to access pregnancy-related health information in South Australia

Australian Journal of Primary Health ◽

10.1071/py13029 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 308 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

D. Rodger ◽

A. Skuse ◽

M. Wilmore ◽

S. Humphreys ◽

J. Dalton ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Pregnant Women ◽

Information Needs ◽

South Australia ◽

Information And Communications Technologies ◽

Related Information ◽

Communications Technologies ◽

This paper examines how pregnant women living in South Australia use information and communication technologies (ICTs), principally Internet and mobile phones, to access pregnancy-related information. It draws on 35 semistructured interviews conducted as part of the ‘Health-e Baby’ project, a qualitative study designed to assess the information needs and ICT preferences of pregnant women cared for at a South Australian metropolitan teaching hospital. Our research shows that although ICTs offer exciting possibilities for health promotion and the potential for new forms of communication, networking and connection, we cannot assume the effectiveness of communicating through such channels, despite near universal levels of ICT access. In turn, this highlights that if e-mediated health promotion is to be effective, health promoters and practitioners need to better understand ICT access, usage and content preferences of their clients.

Breaking Down Barriers

IASL Annual Conference Proceedings ◽

10.29173/iasl7540 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Dianne Oberg

Keyword(s):

Best Practice ◽

Internet Use ◽

Study Data ◽

The Internet ◽

Use Of The Internet ◽

Teacher Librarians

In Canada, as in many countries, teachers are being encouraged to integrate information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the Internet into the curriculum. A study conducted in Canada in 1999-2002 examined Internet use in schools through interviews with technology leaders, through surveys of teachers and principals, and through case study investigations of three school districts, each in a different province of Canada. The case study data from the three districts was analyzed, using the NVivo software program, to address three main questions: (1) To what extent was teachers' use of the Internet consistent with “best practice,” as described by Moersch (1999)? (2) What types of support systems appeared to be essential for effective Internet use in classrooms to occur? (3) What was the role of the teacher-librarian in contributing to effective Internet use in classrooms? The study showed that teachers were integrating the Internet into their teaching, but had not yet achieved “best practice,” and that teacher-librarians were influential in supporting teachers’ progress towards “best practice” in the use of the Internet in instruction.

Cases on Progressions and Challenges in ICT Utilization for Citizen-Centric Governance ◽

Moving with Time and Strategy

10.4018/978-1-4666-2071-1.ch002 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 23-43

Author(s):

Sandeep Bhaskar

Keyword(s):

Development Strategy ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Action Plan ◽

Sustainable Community Development ◽

For Profit ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

The Face ◽

This chapter presents evidence of using information and communication technologies (ICTs) towards the goal of sustainable community development. It argues that the biggest impediment to the growth of communities in the developing world is a lack of information and a fair incentive system, both of which can be addressed through ICTs. A three pronged action plan comprising of a development strategy, an information strategy, and a technology strategy is proposed towards this effect. The chapter also showcases how a for-profit business, ITC Limited, transformed the face of agriculture in some parts of India, and how this model can be replicated in other parts of the world. It concludes with a description of the agricultural sector in Bangladesh and show how lessons drawn from the Indian case can be applied to Bangladesh and other developing countries.

How digital fantasy work induces organizational ideal reversal? Long-term conditioning and enactment of digital transformation fantasies at a large alternative bank (1963–2019)

Organization ◽

10.1177/1350508420968185 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 135050842096818

Author(s):

Manuel Hensmans

Keyword(s):

Digital Transformation ◽

Dark Side ◽

Organizational Renewal ◽

For Profit ◽

New Information ◽

Organizational Work

Digitalization, that is, organizational renewal through new information and communication technologies, has long been invested with a fantasmic logic of affording alternative organizational ideals – democratic and not-for-profit rather than hierarchical and for-profit. Responding to calls to study the darker side of Silicon Valley inspired utopia, this paper investigates how and when organizational work on digitalization fantasies undermines organizational ideal renewal. In particular, this paper draws on the extended case of Alternative Bank (1963–2019) to shed light on how the long-term co-evolution of fantasy sublogics and power types in successive digital transformation projects induces organizational ideal reversal. I provide a theoretical model of how organizational ideal reversal comes about through the co-evolutionary conditioning of ‘have your cake and eat it’ affordances, mimetic neglect of real ethical affordances, and structural transgression of the ideal in the name of market and technical discipline. Ideal reversal occurs through consecutive phases of unwitting ideal transgression, followed by increasingly cynical and instrumentalizing transgression, and finally a cathartic moment of liberating ideal reversal. I advance several theoretical propositions on how digital fantasy work induces organizational ideal reversal, situating the dark side of fantasy work within a larger societal critique.

The Role of Digitalization in the Global Energy Transition

International Organisations Research Journal ◽

10.17323/1996-7845-2021-04-06 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 125

Author(s):

Vera Barinova ◽

◽

Anna Devyatova ◽

Denis Lomov ◽

◽

...

Keyword(s):

Energy Transition ◽

Clean Energy ◽

Energy Sector ◽

Theoretical Terms ◽

Limited Mobility ◽

Leading Role ◽

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, digitalization has become a popular topic in both practical and theoretical terms. In many areas, for example, education and communications, information and communication technologies began to play a leading role, especially during the period of limited mobility. However, in some other areas that also came under close scrutiny during the pandemic, such as the field of energy transition, digitalization has not yet fully unlocked its potential. Moreover, the digitalization of energy transition has not been researched enough. The purpose of this article is to fill this gap. The authors investigate the current stage of digitalization of the energy sector and the role of information and communication technologies in the traditional energy complex and in clean energy and identify and analyze the key groups of technologies that will have a decisive impact on the energy transition in the near future. The authors also examine the process of digitalization in the Russian energy sector in order to determine whether it is giving an impetus to the energy transition of Russia.