Simple words about e-government

For more than a year and a half, constantly speaking at e-government conferences, I hear tons of smart, abstruse phrases about our bright and great future. For more than six months, answering the questions of my friends, I try to say what is now, what services you can already use and why all this is necessary. And I was always amazed, why, then, no one can properly convey information to the main consumer of these services (to me, to you, to us).

And I understand the huge budgets for PR of the entire initiative of the electronic present, but I do not understand why no one can do one simple thing for these huge budgets: think like a consumer and check everything on yourself. In general, I decided that we need to make a project that solves this problem. And since I’m a journalist by training, since I’m involved in eGov, since I’m also a consumer, I can constructively implement a media platform: eGov Live: all about e-government in the Russian Federation.



I can say for sure that there will be a lot of interesting and useful, including the mechanism of civilian control over public services in different regions, practices and active feedback. While we are completing the site, I think it’s worth starting to do reviews already. Therefore the first material- after the conference “State Electronic Services Strategic Tasks and Practical Solutions for Russia”.

So that we do things useful for everyone, your help will be very useful to us. Send information from your regions. For what the officials say is one thing, what we really have, we want to learn from you and understand how this can be done better.

I constantly and everywhere and almost everyone quote one wise thought: If we do not have e-government 1.0, what kind of 2.0 in general and what kind of egov can we talk about? Good words of inaction. Well? That is, based on this promise, we are not at all interested in those systems where billions are allocated from the budget to work for us. Recently laid out Volkov about cloudy democracy. Logically says yes? And soon wait for our new project. BUT! I do not like the words DEMOCRACY if the demos (you and I) are not at all in the subject. I would call it less politicized: crowdsourcing efficiency. Yes, it’s so difficult in the rublesh, but in the case and in fact.

In general, in all countries of the world, the most important factor for the development of eGov is the environment, the active involvement of the population in development, discussion of services and projects. But the bottom line is that until each of us understands what is the benefit and plus of electronic or mobile government, that this is changing, nothing of the kind will happen. And even phrases about the fact that this will help reduce the bureaucracy, that the need for face-to-face communication with officials will disappear, that the promises of civil servants can be monitored - these are just words. I suggest moving from words, in fact, to deeds. For eGov is already being implemented. The question is that if you and I are not in the process, then this is done all at half strength.

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