2003: From Portal to Value Aggregator ~ A Distributed Approach to eGovernment

From 2003: E-Government, is probably the most prosaic of all e-concepts.

A journalistic paper I wrote about the role of aggregators in egovernment

Author: Marie Johnson. Published in The Telecommunications Journal of Australia. Volume 53 No 3. Spring 2003.

Read PDF document of the article here.

Since the early ‘90s, there has been a progression of e-prefixed concepts, innovations and tools - each with its own unique and profound impact on the way we live and go about our business. We are all used to the pace at which developments in ICT occur. So it’s no surprise that most of these e-concepts have transformed over their short history and continue to feed off the latest and greatest innovations, enabling us to communicate and conduct business in ways that even ten years ago would have stretched most imaginations.

E-Government, probably the most prosaic of all e-concepts, is no exception.

And while some would argue that e-government is not prodigiously imaginative, it is really a matter of perspective…