Publications/ricou.07.eceg

Authors

Olivier Ricou

Where

Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on e-Government (ECEG)

Type

inproceedings

Keywords

LRDE

Date

2007-06-01

Abstract

This paper is a testimony on the relations between the Internet users and their governments in France during the last decade. It shows the complexity of communication between two worlds that are strangers to each other. Since most of the confrontation occurred over law proposals, it analyses their impact on Internet users and focuses on two examples. These example show the failure of Internet as a political medium. French politicians do not seem to want an active participation of the citizens in decisionmaking processes. In order to end this paper on an optimistic note, the last section enumerates the achievements of egovernment which contributed preparing for a better democracy by increasing transparency, accountability, and education. This might push citizens to ask for more.

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Bibtex (lrde.bib)

@InProceedings{	  ricou.07.eceg,
  author	= {Olivier Ricou},
  title		= {10 years of confrontation between {French} {Internet}
		  users and their successive governments},
  booktitle	= {Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on e-Government
		  (ECEG)},
  month		= jun,
  year		= 2007,
  abstract	= {This paper is a testimony on the relations between the
		  Internet users and their governments in France during the
		  last decade. It shows the complexity of communication
		  between two worlds that are strangers to each other. Since
		  most of the confrontation occurred over law proposals, it
		  analyses their impact on Internet users and focuses on two
		  examples. These example show the failure of Internet as a
		  political medium. French politicians do not seem to want an
		  active participation of the citizens in decisionmaking
		  processes. In order to end this paper on an optimistic
		  note, the last section enumerates the achievements of
		  egovernment which contributed preparing for a better
		  democracy by increasing transparency, accountability, and
		  education. This might push citizens to ask for more. }
}