Thursday, January 05, 2006
Mobile Government:
Chair: Matthias Finger, Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| Citizens are increasingly mobile, both in Europe and globally. As citizens they are entitled to certain services (such as benefits but also the right to vote), and the government will have to adapt to this mobile citizen behaviour if it wants to both service and control its citizens. Mobile government thus first means to adapt government and administration services to be accessible in a ubiquitous manner. But such “government mobility” also creates new problems (e.g., identity management) and offers new opportunities and services (e.g., voting globally). Finally, government itself may become mobile as a result of offering ubiquitous services, thus no longer being bound to one physical place. | |
| This mini-track aims at identifying current experiments or already working mobile government services, good practice at diffusion stage; future plans and projects or even medium term trends. Corresponding submissions illustrating and analyzing such mobile government are thus encouraged. | |
| Matthias Finger and his team are directing the global executive master in e-governance at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and are particularly interested at how government and governance evolve and adapt as a result of the ICTs. |
