• Home
• Subjects
• Blog Roll
• Blindside
• Kable
• Advanced Search

• 

The Dutch looked at constitutional implications of e-gov

The Dutch seem to be trying to rethink e-government as part of their EU presidency, which is welcome.

Holland is notable in having established a special committee, sort of akin to a Royal Commission in the UK, to examine whether citizens need different constitutional protections in an e-enabled world. By and large they decided it didnt, ie that existing constitutional safeguards were sufficient and carried forward fine.

I suppose that underlying ideal e-enabled government is a really sound constitutional basis, so that we know where we stand, and the code supports the law. Some MPs take the view for example that it’s not appropriate for the UK to have an ID system while people do not have explicit constitutional protection.

Does anyone know a really good constitutional expert who also understands e-government? It would be very good to hear from them, so we could try to set out the underlying principles. We may not have a Royal Commission doing it, but the bloggers can, and afterwards we can all use knighthoods in our email addresses.

Published by William Heath on 23/09/04 at 5:33pm

Comments

Ideal Government

Let's say what we want from e-enabled government. Let's observe government first-hand. Let's say "Wouldn't It Be Better If" (WIBBI). Become an ethnographer of bureaucracy today! It beats getting frustrated with public services.

Categories

• "What do we want?"
  • Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
  • Design: Co-creation
    • Online Maps
  • Design: user-oriented
  • Foundation of Trust
    • Identity
    • Data nitwittery
  • Save Time and Money
• Greener government IT
• Pertinent Art
• Power of Information
• Political engagement
• "Transformational Government"
• Government Procurement
• Across the Board
• Ideal Goverment - project

Comment

Anyone is free to comment. Or mail with an article if you want to be an author. I'll post it up and send you a password. This whole thing is supported by Kable.

Authors

Sign up for new articles

Copyright

Designed by...

Statistics

This page has been viewed 388017 times

Entries: 1523 | Comments: 2374 | Trackbacks: 206
Most Recent Entry: 05/16/2008 10:36 pm
Most Recent Comment: 05/16/2008 11:49 am

Members: 185 | Logged in: 0 | Guests: 38
Most recent visitor: 05/17/2008 03:23 am
Most visitors ever: 443 on 10/12/2005 02:21 pm