1. Trends and developments in eGOVwork – a resesearch perspective
Professor Victor Bekkers
Erasmus University Rotterdam

2. Content Socio-technological trends
E-government from a public management and public policy perspective
Policy oriented research issues

3. Socio-technological trends (1)
Technological support
Connected infrastructures and networks, open source, ultra wideband,instant messaging programs, wireless networks (web 2.0)
Wireless networks, twitter
Social manifestation
Instant interactive social networking with collective intelligence aming at co-creation
Ubiquious and instant access

4. Socio-technological trends (2)
Social manifestation
Small, smart and mobile
Object specified and location based
Technological support
Wireless, smart phones, pda’s , netbooks, RFID, location based sensoring
Embedded intelligence, RFID, sensoring, geographical information systems

5. Socio-technological trends (3)
Social manifestation
Visualization
Proactive personalization
Technological support
Photos, video streaming, geographical information, simulation and virtual reality
Data mining and profiling, semantic web (3.0), tagging, affinity profiles, feeds

6. Socio-technological trends (4)
Technological support
Linked databases, information architectures, technological and semantic interoperability, cloud computing
Social manifestation
Distributed connectivity and data exchange/sharing in chains and networks

7. Understanding e-government
Redesigning the relationships between government and external and internal stakeholders through ICT to create added value
Three perspectives
Instrumental: tool for efficiency and efficacy
Political: power resource
Institutional: assumptions, practices and values
Government is information
ICT as the fabric of public administration

8. Balancing act: rationalities and values
Political rationality
E-government
Professional
rationality
Legal rationality
Economic rationality

9. Strategic positioning e-gov: beyond services
Political-admin.
developments
Societal develop-
ments
Policy formulation
E-government
Policy implementation & service delivery
Policy Evaluation
Sectoral
developments
ICT
developments
Policy monitoring & enforcement

10. Policy oriented research issues (1)
Networking and collaboration
New and virtual organizational forms with refer to new ways of coordination and task allocation around the sharing of information and knowledge
Scale upgrading and downgrading and the idea of distance
Managing infrastructure development
Public service innovation and the whole person concept
Virtual policy communities
Boundary management and shifting jurisdictions

11. Policy oriented research issues (2)
Governance of back office integration
Infrastructure development as developing different rules for exchange and sharing
Infrastructure development as shared understanding
Change management
The politics of pictures
Democratization of picture and image production
Penetration of pictures in political mobilization
Simulation and virtual reality in agenda setting and policy development

12. Policy oriented research issues (3)
Managing the society/government interface
Web 2.0 networks and changing mobilization patterns: the importance of micro-mobilization
Instantaneous interaction and communication
Crossovers between micro and meso media and between new and classical media
Strategic surprises in agenda setting

13. Policy oriented research issues (4)
Political participation, coproduction and policy making
Potential of participation and co-creation
Citizen’s attititude and capabilities
Institutional barriers
The ambivalence of transparency
More information, but also more insight
Managing information overload
Selection and brokerage
Reliability

14. Policy oriented research issues (5)
Identity, security and privacy
Penetration, dependence and vulnerability
Manipulation
Digital spurs, data mining and profiling