by Russell Craig
I'm a former New Zealand public servant with a long background in e-government and public management. I've also spent time working in the NZ health system and at the OECD. Now that I'm with the ... More about Russell Craig
Creating a Sustainable Public Sector: the Role of ICTs
For some time now I have felt that government efforts to address sustainability challenges have suffered a number of problems. Specifically, I think that:
- they are too narrowly focused on environmental sustainability;
- they are too externally focused; and
- they fail to make linkges to e-government which has much to offer in the area of public sector sustainability.
Currently, during 2009 we are planning to develop some "thought leadership" around the question of how ICTs the can play a role in creating a sustainable public sector.
As a first step toward this I have produced a brief discussion document that is available here in draft form. Next week this document will be considered as part of a specialist session on this topic that we are running at our annual Public Services Summit. We hope that the thinking presented in the document will be thorughly tested and refined. Also, we hope that we will find people who will be interested in collaborating with us as we devlop this work in the coming months.
The document is posted here for precisely the same reason. If you are interested in this subject please do let us have your comments by posting them in this discussion.
Comments
In preparing for this session, we recognized that many of the audience will have a great deal to contribute. There are many aspects of this question that will make this session interesting and informative. What do you think?
posted over 3 years ago
Absolutely. We've suggested a few questions that participants might like to discuss, but I'm sure that they will think of more and even better ones!
posted over 3 years ago