TOWARD A SUCCESSFUL AND SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN eSTRATEGY

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TOWARD A SUCCESSFUL AND SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN
e-STRATEGY

• byDaniel van Lerberghe
• President Executive Director
• POLITECH INSTITUTE

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Overview

• Introduction
• The 4 dimensions of public e-Governance
• A Successful e-Strategy
• Implementation at the European Level

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Introduction

• The success of e-Government and e-Democracy lies
  in the development of an overall strategy
  bridging public institutions, international
  institutions, governments, regional and local
  authorities, universities, research centers,
  think tanks, civil society and political leaders
  with technology actors for a better use of
  Information Communication Technology tools
  towards the advancement of modern public
  governance and democracy
• Tomorrows challenge for European Leaders and
  Actors
• A common European strategic vision in a
  multi-level governance framework

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The 4 dimensions of public e-Governance

• e-Government
• The use of ICT to foster communication and
  efficiency of the Public Sectors workflow
  processes (back-office) and relationship
  management with external actors (e.g. Citizens,
  Businesses, Civil Society). It also includes
  e-Administration.
• e-Democracy
• The new role of ICT in Information and in the
  organization of Civil Society in relation with
  the democratic process of government. It also
  includes e-Citizenship.

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The 4 dimensions of public e-Governance

• e-Politics
• At the intersection of e-Government
  (Administration) and e-Democracy (Civil Society)
  
• The new role of ICT to deliver civil society
  actors a powerful combination of strategy, issue
  advocacy and cutting-edge web-technology services
  to empower, activate, educate, and mobilize
  citizens to achieve public affairs objectives
• The concept of the Political Entrepreneur.

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The 4 dimensions of public e-Governance

• e-Diplomacy
• The new role of ICT in a multi-governance
  framework (e.g. UN and EU)
• The information and in the organization of
  international civil society actors to achieve
  public affairs international and transnational
  objectives (e.g. conflict prevention and
  management, governance of the Global Commons or
  transnational security threats)
• Cyberspace is by essence a transnational
  environment of human interactions.

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A Successful e-Strategy

• Foster the 4 dimensions of modern public
  governance in Cyberspace, while taking into
  account that
• Cyberspace possesses its own methods of
  communication and interactions, mastering it
  require a strategy that fits its nature
• An e-Strategy needs to respond to the needs and
  wants of the different actors of modern public
  governance and democracy and the unique
  characteristics of the European vision
• An efficient and flexible e-Strategy has to be
  complementary and in phase with a global public
  and political strategy to achieve its objectives
• An e-Strategy needs to anticipate socio-political
  and technological changes by being inclusive,
  sustainable, convergent, friendly and
  interactive.

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A Successful e-StrategyImplementation at the
European Level

• Creating a sustainable permanent consultation
  framework bridging political, public and civil
  actors with IT players, academia and citizens to
  actively shape modern democracy governance in
  Cyberspace
• To generate innovation and excellence in the
  different domains of electronic public
  governance
• To provide common guidelines to adapt European
• e-Strategies to future technological and
  socio-political changes.

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THANK YOU

• Daniel van Lerberghe
• email danielvl_at_politech-institute.org
• POLITECH INSTITUTE
• European Center of Political Technologies
• Address Saint Bernard, 67 Brussels B-1060
  Belgium
• email info_at_politech-institute.org website
  www.politech-institute.org