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Engaging the Community Through E-Democracy in South Australia

Engaging the Community Through E-Democracy in South Australia
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Author(s): Kate Alport (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 18
Source title: E-Government Diffusion, Policy, and Impact: Advanced Issues and Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-130-8.ch012

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Abstract

This chapter examines the spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in South Australia. It starts by assessing South Australia’s leading role in the adoption of democratic reforms in the nineteenth century. It then suggests that there is not the same enthusiasm for the more contemporary reforms found in the implementation of e-democracy. The chapter draws from an appraisal of internet based initiatives by government, not for profit and private agencies and sets these against best practice models for community engagement. Based on this research it concludes that there is little originality and initiative in the formal State Government sites and that there is little designed to foster e-democracy. What innovation there is can be found in more local and specific community based applications of ICT.

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