Yes, E-governance provides an opportunity for 'big organizations' to
control, but it also provides an opportunity to empower local governance
if neighborhoods and rural areas are helped to use it. Networking, as
Jeremy Rifkin proposes in THE EUROPEAN DREAM, could interconnect not
only NGO's but could interconnect and empower local and regional
e-governance to work together as a new style of global governance
institution. I am skeptical about possibilities for reforming and
restructuring the United Nations, but such networking (as now
interconnects some legislators in different countries) could be a
powerful parallel structure to the UN, both counterbalancing it and
supporting the UN to do good things that 'big organizations' might not
want.
++++
Parker Rossman is exploring online in a draft textbook, free to the
world, how to use the Internet to provide health care and learning for
everyone on the planet.
<http://ecolecon.missouri.edu/globalresearch/index.html>
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, Peter Burgess wrote:
> Kris Dev made some interesting points in recent messages. He has
> observed that one of the fundamental reasons that big organizations,
> like governments, big international multilateral organizations and
> international NGOs have embraced E-Governance is to control more and
> service less. This is a challenging remark. Big organizations have
> failed to embrace transparency and accountability that empowers people
> and sets the stage for a high quality of service, and instead, are
> working on strategies that make more and more control possible, while
> doing rather little for people and their communities.
>
> E-governance should not separate people and community-based civil
> society from the big institutions, but help make people and community
> based organizations more effective in progressing socio-economic
> development. Instead of ICT being implemented on top of the people and
> the community it should be implemented with the people and in the
> community.
..snip...
------------
***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization***
To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type:
subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd
Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at:
<http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
