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Saturday, 29.06.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001
Abstract:

Gemeinden und Regionen stehen im nationalen und internationalen Wettbewerb miteinander: als interessanter Wirtschaftsstandort für Unternehmen 1), als attraktiver Wohnort für Bürger und als moderne und zeitgemäße Urlaubs- und Feriendestination für Gäste. Dabei können moderne Dienste und Leistungen der lokalen Verwaltungen in der Region den entscheidenden Mehrwert beisteuern. Im Sinne des eGovernment und Open Government sollten Gemeinden und Regionen digitale Dienste anbieten und den Zugriff auf Informationen und Daten ermöglichen. Dadurch schaffen sie einen direkten Mehrwert für Bürger, Wirtschaftstreibende und Gäste oder ermöglichen anderen, dies zu tun. Ein besonderer Stellenwert kommt dabei Geoinformationssystemen und insbesondere WebGIS-Anwendungen zu. Interaktive Karten und Geo-Daten werden in verwaltungsinternen Fachabteilungen bereits häufig eingesetzt, meist fehlt allerdings noch die Öffnung dieser Informationspools für die Allgemeinheit 2). Ein Interreg-Projekt hatte die Nutzung von Geo-Daten und GIS-Technologien zur Unterstützung von Freizeitaktivitäten in alpinen Regionen zum Ziel.

Read more: Nutzung von Open Government Data – Erfahrungen aus einem Interreg-Projekt

Denmark, Montenegro and the Philippines come in top three.

The Open Government Partnership has ranked the top ten initiatives in citizen engagement, with Denmark, Montenegro and the Philippines making up the top three.

The Philippines came third for its participatory budgeting programme. The programme is implemented across all local governments, which allows civil society organisations to help choose funding priorities, and the national government is committing over US$300,000 for each city to implement projects identified through the participatory projects.

Read more: Open Government Partnership ranks global top 10

Inaugural UN/UAE Open Government Data Forum highlights global push for data to drive efficiency and innovation.

Governments across the globe are deepening their strategic commitments and working more closely to make government data openly available for public use, according to public and private sector leaders who met this week at the inaugural Open Government Data Forum in Abu Dhabi, hosted by the United Nations and the United Arab Emirates, April 28-29.

Read more: Open Government Data Gains Global Momentum

In a blog post earlier this week, Martin Tisne called the progress made by the Open Government Partnership “one of the best returns on investments we've had.” Bold words from the man who helped found the Open Government Partnership in 2011, and who now works as the Director of Policy for the Omidyar Network's Government Transparency initiative, which committed US$1,480,000 to the initiative in 2012.

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an intergovernmental initiative with civil society participation that promotes government transparency by holding participating governments' accountable to certain commitments they make as part of their OGP action plans—commitments meant to make government more open, transparent and responsive to citizens. It launched in September 2011 with eight original participants, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil. A second cohort of 39 countries joined in April 2012. Reports on their progress one year in were released earlier this year by the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) and are now open to comment from the public. The IRM has published data on all 958 commitments or actions analyzed to date, which includes those from both the first cohort and the second cohort of countries.

Read more: Near 3-Year Mark, Open Government Partnership Success Still Unclear

Governments the world over are struggling with the extent of the global surveillance revelations and the deep shock this has left everyone in. The level of trust in government has declined to new lows. How can citizens trust their governments if they can no longer rely on them for the protection of their basic civil rights, if their communications are monitored by foreign and their own intelligence services, in addition to all other economic, social and political problems that are haunting countries around the globe due to the financial crisis? Is open government one possible strategy for governments to win back some trust? I think so.

Read more: Winning back trust through open government

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