e-Government in Argentina - who's reading?
Submitted by dcornwall on Tue, 2007-01-30 19:18.
Thanks to the blog BiblioTICando con humor (blog bibliotecario por Diana RodrÃguez), I became aware of this paper about eGovernment in Argentina: Gobierno Electronico: donde esta parada la Argentina? by Paula Nahirnak. IF I understand this paper correctly, it has some very interesting things to say. I say IF because my understanding of it is formed by my approximate 5th grade Spanish level plus hints from Google Translate. So, if any fluent Spanish speakers would look over this six page document and let me know if I've gone wrong, I'd be grateful. The paper appears to focus on the delivery of government services and information by Argentina's provincal government. A year and a half ago the provinces were given a decree by the central government to undertake electronic activities. For reasons I can't translate well enough to understand, the authors of the article graded provinces by how well these four classes of information were web posted:
- Information regarding provincal debt.
- Provincial budgetary law.
- Information about the budget.
- Information about tax collection.
From a table it looks like performance in these categories significantly improved from 2002 to 2006, and especially after 2005. The article also references a 2005 article, Global E-Government 2005 by Darrell M. West and from what I can tell, Argentina ranted with countries like Spain, Lithuania, Korea, Iraq(!), Romania and a few others. What I find really fascinating about the article, again if I understand it correctly, is that I'm not sure who this electronic information is actually for. Page five of the article has a chart of public employees by province who have access to computer equipment. Even the top rated area, the capital of Buenos Aries, only 51% of the government's own workers have access to computers! The median for the country seems to be 26.7%. So almost three quarters of Argentina's government workers cannot access the web posted information from their employer. On the last page of the article is a table expressing access to home Internet connections in terms of people to one Internet connection. The capital again wins out with "just" five people per Internet connection. Nationwide average is 26 people per Internet connection and in the NEA y Litoral province, there are 83 people for every home Internet connection. So I don't think most people at home could get much out of Argentina's drive to put government information and services on the Web. Perhaps their citizens are going to libraries. But as I've said, this is MY reading. If you have a better one, please let us know in comments. But it does look like the digital divide is hard at work all over the planet. So how do we help the 30% or so of Americans here at home w/o Internet access get their government information?
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Gobierno Electronico: donde esta parada la Argentina? by Paula Nahirnak.
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En razón del interes puesto
En razón del interes puesto de manifiesto adjunto Links para acceder a información, que aunque no es actual, es útil.
1) RELEVAMIENTO DEL DESPLIEGUE DE LAS TECNOLOGÃAS DE INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN EN LAS PROVINCIAS ARGENTINAS
http://www.cfired.org.ar/esp2/eventos/Ticschubut/libro.pdf
2) El propósito que persigue este libro es el de analizar las consecuencias que, para todos los órdenes de la vida provincial, se generarán a partir del despliegue de las nuevas tecnologÃas de la información y la comunicación.
Se trata de un trabajo de múltiples enfoques, cuyo hilo conductor atraviesa al Estado y a las Administraciones Públicas de las Provincias. AsÃ, se utiliza alternativamente una perspectiva estratégica -que describe las tendencias principales que se observan alrededor de la confluencia de los cambios tecnológicos, polÃticos y sociales caracterÃsticos de la Sociedad de la Información– con otras que ponen el foco de atención sobre las transformaciones en los procesos intraorganizacionales.
http://www.cfired.org.ar/esp2/eventos/tic_tod/ponencias/CFI-PP_4%B0vers%...
Google "translation" of En razón del interes puesto
Dante, Gracia por visita nos!
Everyone, while I don't have the time to fully translate's Dante's comment, I ran it through the Google translation module. As you can see, it is far from perfect but I think does get a sense of the ideas across. It is offered in the spirit of something is better than nothing.
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In regard to the shown interest Links associate to accede to information, that although he is not present, he is useful. 1) RELEVAMIENTO OF THE UNFOLDING OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ARGENTINE PROVINCES http://www.cfired.org.ar/esp2/eventos/Ticschubut/libro.pdf 2) The intention that persecutes this book is the one to analyze the consequences that, for all the orders of the provincial life, will be generated from the unfolding of the new technologies of the information and the communication. One is a work of multiple approaches, whose wire crosses to the State and the Public Administrations of the Provinces. Thus, a strategic perspective is used alternatively - that it describes the main tendencies that are observed around the confluence of the technological, political changes and social characteristic of the Society of the Information with which they put the attention center on the transformations in the intraorganizacionales processes. http://www.cfired.org.ar/esp2/eventos/tic_tod/ponencias/CFI-PP_4%B0vers%...
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote
Gracias por el interes en
Gracias por el interes en del estado del e-Government en la Argentina.
La publicación original es de fecha 12 de Enero de 2007. Por ello y porque incluye datos que hacen referencia a información del año 2006, considero que el informe es actual.
La autora del artÃculo utiliza los cuatro (4) aspectos mencionados para evaluar la "transparencia" en la gestión de las cuentas públicas de los gobiernos provinciales y municipales.
Los datos estadÃsticos que muestran situaciones de profundas brechas o estratificación digital en el NOA y NEA obedecen a problemas culturales endémicos, escasa e inadecuada infraestructura eléctrica y de telecomunicaciones y un bajo promedio de ingreso percapita de la población.
En general la ausencia de una verdadera modernización del estado (polÃtica y administrativa)y la complementación y coordinación del plan nacional con un plan federal (aún en gestación y representativo de las provincias y municipios)genera la dilapidación de esfuerzos y desaprovecha las buenas practicas alcanzadas.
No somos un paÃs que este en abundancia, por lo tanto deberÃamos planificar, coordinar, controlar y ejecutar acciones hacia el e-Gov con mucha precisión y amplio criterio. Haciendo evaluaciones y divulgando y premiando las mejores parcticas.
Google "translation" of Gracias por el interes en
Dante, Gracias por visita nos!
Everyone, while I don't have the time to fully translate's Dante's comment today, I ran it through the Google translation module. As you can see, it is far from perfect but I think does get a sense of the ideas across. It is offered in the spirit of something is better than nothing.
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Thanks for the interest in of the state of e-Government in Argentina. The original publication is of date 12 of January of 2007. For that reason and because include data that make reference to information of the year 2006, consider that the report be present. The author of the article uses the four (4) mentioned aspects to evaluate the “transparency†in the management of the public accounts of the provincial and municipal governments. The statistical data that show to situations of deep breaches or digital stratification in NOA and NEA obey to endemic cultural problems, little and inadequate electrical infrastructure and of telecommunications and a low average of percapita entrance of the population. In general the absence of a true modernization of the state (political and administrative) and the complementación and coordination of the national plan with a federal plan (still in representative gestation and of the provinces and municipalities) generate the squandering of efforts and fail to take advantage of the good ones you practice reached. We are not a country that this in abundance, therefore we would have to plan, to coordinate, to control and to execute actions towards e-Gov with much precision and ample criterion. Making evaluations and disclosing and awarding the best parcticas. RELEVAMIENTO OF the UNFOLDING OF the TECHNOLOGIES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION IN the ARGENTINE PROVINCES 2 http://www.cfired.org.ar/esp2/eventos/Ticschubut/libro.pdf) the intention that persecutes this book is the one to analyze the consequences that, for all the orders of the provincial life, will be generated from the unfolding of the new technologies of the information and the communication. One is a work of multiple approaches, whose wire crosses to the State and the Public Administrations of the Provinces. Thus, a strategic perspective is used alternatively - that it describes the main tendencies that are observed around the confluence of the technological, political changes and social characteristic of the Society of the Information with which they put the attention center on the transformations in the intraorganizacionales processes. http://www.cfired.org.ar/esp2/eventos/tic_tod/ponencias/CFI-PP_4%B0vers%...
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
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