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IT for Governing or for Governance?: From Hungary to Chile to Burma

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

     ‘Governing’ or managing a country more efficiently used to be the preferred and top-down interpretation of the concept of governance in the past, as discussed in my previous posting, addressing myth # 3 – which challenged some of the ‘governorexics’ and ’governoskeptics’.  Through a few illustrations, let me selectively showcase how a few IT-related innovations were put to use for past ‘governing’ objectives, and lets see how applications of IT did evolve […]