Strategic Impact of e-Government on Economy and Society
Monday 01 December 2008, 10:20 - 13:00
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Prof. Wojciech Cellary
Poznan University of Economics
Poland
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A good strategy to e-Government development is the one that treats e-Government as a lever to speed up positive transformations aiming at electronic knowledge-based economy and information society. This strategy is valid for all the countries, independently how reach or poor they are, because its goal is to find social cohesion between younger, better educated generation of people in a country and the older, worse educated one. The first generation needs knowledge-based job as economical activity to reap profit from its education. The second generation needs cheap knowledge-based services that may be efficiently delivered on the mass scale only by the Internet. The tutorial contributes to better understanding of relationships between electronic public administration and electronic business. A bothering question arises: Why e-business develops much faster than e-Government? The tutorial puts light on this problem showing how paper (paper documents), as an information medium, influences organization of public administrations. It is proposed, how to transform organization of public administrations to fully benefit from the features of electronic information. Second question considered is how to use e-Government to stimulate development of e-business as a part of electronic knowledge-based economy? It is proposed to allow businesses to deliver integrated and augmented services basing on simple, electronic public services and data. Integrated and augmented e-services delivered by business are a way to achieve customer centricity required to increase efficiency of economy and to improve quality of life of the society. At the end of the tutorial direct and indirect public values provided by e-Government are summarized.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary is a computer scientist, head of the Department of Information Technology at the Poznan University of Economics. In his professional career he worked at nine universities in Poland, France, and Italy. His research interests are currently focused on internet technologies, multimedia, electronic business and economy, electronic government and information society. He is an author of 10 books and over 100 scientific papers. He gives lectures on electronic business to over 700 students per year. He was a leader of many scientific and industrial projects. He served as a consultant to several Polish ministries, Polish Parliament and Senate, as well as European Commission. He was scientific editor of the report “Poland and the Global Information Society: Logging on” developed under auspices of United Nations Development Programme.
