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Original Statement of Importance (Return to List) |
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| 8 | Alfonso Reyes | E-government, as a way to deliver services to citizens, will reduce the chances of emergent corrupting practices derived from excessive buroucracy. |
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| 65 | Pete Barnsley | The bureaucracy maintains democracy through its filtering and temporal control. Reductions in bureaucracy will dilute the purity of democracy. An 'efficient' government is an uncontrollable beast! Perhaps efficiency is the characteristic that allows for both sides of the 'desirable' one loved by the terrorist the other the societist. |
| 101 | Alfonso Reyes | Transparency in government's actions is not achieved by adding more and more bureaucritic control mechanisms. This approach, as we may observe in some latinoamerican countries, has precisely the opposite outcome: an increase in corrupted practices. What is needed, I think, is a mechanism to increase government accountability to its citizens; a sort of "social" control. This mechanism enhance participation and improve citizenship. ICT may be used in that sense. |
| 108 | Roger Harnden | Surely, we need some redefinition of such terms as 'democracry, and to reflect/redefine, the function of such things as bureaucracy. |