I decided to focus on the future and vision for e-governemnt.
First result that I decided to look up on future on e-government. This a university site ans seems to deem good information for our group project. The information is based from University of Albany.
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/reports/future_of_egov?chapter=2
Has a good definition of e-gov.
"E-government is the use of information technology to support government operations, engage citizens, and provide government services."
Privacy issues
"A way to offer services that resolves the issues associated with privacy and data sharing. Service and data integration projects are classic examples of being on the "bleeding edge" of technology. According to the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, "Sharing data from multiple sources is a challenge that has become more fundamental as portal technology advances." Yet system architects continue to face "the same barriers that have plagued client/server and mainframe application developers." Data integration requires new business processes, increases technical complexity, demands reliable security, and presents serious data privacy, quality, and ownership issues. These issues are of deep concern to citizens as well. According to recent Hart-Teeter polls conducted for the Council for Excellence in Government, citizens are very interested in e-government, but prefer a slower development pace that pays close attention to their security and privacy concerns before investing in more service development. Citizens also want more than a convenient way to renew their auto registrations. They want e-government to help them become better informed, and they want it to make government more accountable by making processes and decisions more open and transparent."
This is a good summary of contents of webpage.
- Comprehensive strategy
- Integration of information and services
- Privacy and data sharing
- Dynamic use of the Web
- Partnerships and other organizational networks
http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/future-challenges-for-egovernment/accessibility.html
Another issue with privacy
"Privacy, security and feedback
Everyone who is using e-government services will be concerned about issues such as privacy and security.
Privacy statements, security symbols and the like are provided on e-government sites to address these
concerns. However, for many people with disabilities, these reassurances may not be readily apparent.
The nature of many impairments, and the limitations of assistive technology, make input errors more
likely, make it harder to check the information that has been entered, and make it more difficult to
comprehend error messages.
Security and verification systems can impose barriers on people with disabilities. For example, a system
that requires a person to copy some text in a bitmap image into a form (to show they are human not
a machine), will exclude people with vision impairment and many people with learning disabilities or
cognitive impairment (W3C 2003). "
This site looks like its funded and ran by Australian government. Has alot of dense, easy to follow information.
