Which Digital State is Now at the Leading Edge?: Contrasting Canada and the United States

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Author(s): Sandford Borins (University of Toronto, Canada)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 16
Source title: Public Sector Reform Using Information Technologies: Transforming Policy into Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Thanos Papadopoulos (University of Southampton, UK)and Panagiotis Kanellis (Ernst & Young and University of Athens, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-839-2.ch001

Keywords: Electronic Government / Government & Law / Information Science Reference / Public & Sector Management

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As part of ongoing research about the transformative impact of Information Technology (IT) on politics and government, this chapter outlines developments over the last four years in the use of IT in the federal government of Canada and the Province of Ontario. Areas discussed include online political campaigning, politicization of government’s online presence, advocacy websites, online service delivery, and public consultation. While Canada and Ontario were previously considered to be at the leading edge and have made progress over the last four years, the 2008 Obama election campaign as well as online consultation and service delivery initiatives undertaken in the first year of the Obama Administration strongly suggest that the United States Government has surpassed Canada.

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