The Internet and Governance: The Global Context
Speakers:
Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Ignace Snellen, Christian Ahlert, Professor Donatella DellaPorta, Professor Peter Ferdinand, Professor Richard Heeks, Dr Randolph Kluver, Professor Herbert Kubicek, Edwin Lau, Marcus Maenz, Lorenzo Mosca, Professor Richard Rose, Jerzy Szeremeta, Ivar Tallo, Professor Alexandre Trechsel, Hilmar Westholm, Ernest Wilson III, Professor Arre Zuurmond
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Dates:
Thursday 08 - Saturday 10 January 2004
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Location:
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.
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Register
To attend, please email your name and affiliation to events@oii.ox.ac.uk
This conference brings together experts with diverse approaches to governance and the Internet in different continents.
The Internet is a global phenomenon, but the response to the Internet varies with the social, economic, cultural and political context. However, most that is written about the Internet concentrates on a few advanced industrial societies, and especially the United States. Yet with the number of Internet users in America now so high, the growth points in the next few years will occur in radically different contexts, ranging from Russia and South Africa to China, with radical implications for the relationship of the Internet to governance.
Governance has multiple meanings: it can refer to bureaucratic activities of government; to the processes, opaque or open, by which government does or does not deliver services to citizens; to the responsiveness of government to citizen demands for entitlements; and to public accountability through elections, the media, NGOs or transnational pressures. Context differs not only between well off and developing countries, but also between countries that are high or low on democratization or/and corruption indicators.
This conference will bring together experts with diverse approaches to governance and the Internet in different continents. Concepts will encourage generalization across national and continental boundaries; contextual knowledge will encourage qualifications about the circumstances and the extent to which generalizations are globally applicable or institutions and practices of governments impose limitations on the use of new technology.
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14:00 |
Registration at the Department of Politics and International Relations |
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14:15 |
Opening by Professor William Dutton |
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14:30 |
Richard Rose: Thoughts on Governance and the Internet in a Space-Time Context Jerzy Szeremeta: The DotGov Bubble: How to Restructure the E-Government Sector? |
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16:00 |
Coffee |
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16:15 |
Ernest Wilson III: A Bottom Up View of Internet Governance |
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17:45 |
Reception at the Department of Politics (Common Room) |
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Time |
Session |
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09:30 |
Richard Heeks: eGovernment as a Carrier of Context Ivar Tallo: Openness as a Precondition of Interactive Governance: the Nordic Example |
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10:45 |
Coffee |
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11:00 |
Randolph Kluver: Using the Internet to Promote Control within Government: the Internet’s Challenge to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
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12:00 |
Lunch at Balliol College Dining Hall |
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13:45 |
Donatella DellaPorta and Lorenzo Mosca: Global-Net for Global Movements? A network of networks for a movement of movements Ignace Snellen: Top Down and Street Level Bureaucracy: From Weber to the Internet |
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15:15 |
Coffee |
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15:30 |
Herbert Kubicek and Hilmar Westholm: The Back Office Dimension of E-Governance Helen Margetts: Obstacles and Achievements in e-Government in Britain |
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21:30 |
Conference Dinner at Balliol College (ask at the Porter’s Lodge for the OII Dinner in the Old Common Room) |
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Session |
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09:30 |
Alexandre Trechsel and Marcus Maenz: Obstacles to Electronic Integration of Social Security Data Arre Zuurmond: The Internet for Interorganizational Information Infrastructures |
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10:45 |
Coffee |
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11:00 |
Concluding session |
About the speakers
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Professor William H. Dutton
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute -
Professor Helen Margetts
Affiliation: School of Public Policy, University College, London -
Professor Ignace Snellen
Affiliation: Public Administration, Erasmus University of Rotterdam -
Christian Ahlert
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute -
Professor Donatella DellaPorta
Affiliation: European University Institute -
Professor Peter Ferdinand
Affiliation: University of Warwick -
Professor Richard Heeks
Affiliation: Institute for Development Policy & Management, University of Manchester -
Dr Randolph Kluver
Affiliation: National Technical University, Singapore -
Professor Herbert Kubicek
Affiliation: University of Bremen -
Edwin Lau
Affiliation: OECD, Paris -
Marcus Maenz
Affiliation: Institute for eDemocracy University of Geneva -
Lorenzo Mosca
Affiliation: GRACE (Group for Research on Collective Action in Europe), University of Florence -
Professor Richard Rose
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute -
Jerzy Szeremeta
Affiliation: Knowledge Management Branch, Dept of Public Administration and Development Management, United Nations DESA, New York -
Ivar Tallo
Affiliation: e-Governance Academy, Tallinn, Estonia -
Professor Alexandre Trechsel
Affiliation: Institute for eDemocracy University of Geneva -
Hilmar Westholm
Affiliation: University of Bremen -
Ernest Wilson III
Affiliation: Centre for International Development, University of Maryland -
Professor Arre Zuurmond
Affiliation: Leiden University