Affiliation:
1. University of the West of England
Abstract
This article suggests that e-government and e-governance initiatives can potentially have major organisational impacts through three major mechanisms: improved decision-making, more intensive and productive use of data bases, and better communications. These mechanisms impact on both the internal organisation of public agencies, their configuration of networks and partnerships. E-enablement therefore makes obsolete many existing organisational structures and processes and offers the prospect of transformation in both service delivery and public governance arrangements. However, the organisational changes which can be effected through the e-revolution are only just beginning to become evident. While it seems likely that existing organisational configurations in the public sector will not be sustainable, the most appropriate ways forward will only be uncovered through much experimentation within e-government and e-governance programmes. In the nature of experimentation, many of these initiatives will turn out to be unproductive or cost-ineffective - but that is perhaps the necessary price to pay for the level of public sector transformation which now appears to be in prospect.
Subject
Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science
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