This project investigated the legal, organisational, technological and other barriers to expanding effective eGovernment services using the Internet, and defined possible solutions at a European level to overcome these obstacles.
Senior Fellow, Advisory Board Member
Bill Dutton was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.
Professor of Society and the Internet
Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet, a political scientist specialising in digital government and politics. She was Director of the OII from 2011-18. She is a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College.
Professor of Education, the Internet and Society
Rebecca Eynon's research focuses on learning and the Internet, and the links between digital and social exclusion.
A look at how new technologies, the emergence of Web 2.0 and the citizen / consumer as creator enables a whole new model of government services and interactions, with the citizen at their centre.
With Professor Stephen Coleman
There have been a number of experiments in consulting with the public online. This talk considers how the public regards such opportunities, and some policy options which take into account existing barriers and opportunities.
With Professor William H. Dutton and Dr Trond-Arne Undheim
Concluding comments from the 'Breaking Barriers to e-Goverment' project workshop: 'Breaking Barriers to eGovernment: Overcoming Obstacles to improving European Public Services'.
