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Governance and Information Technology From Electronic Government to Information Government, by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and David Lazar

Governance and Information Technology From Electronic Government to Information Government, by... Information Polity 14 (2009) 235–237 DOI 10.3233/IP-2009-0183 IOS Press Governance and Information Technology From Electronic Government to Information Government, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & David Lazar [eds]. London: MIT Press, 2007. This book promises much. It’s title alone is enough to whet the appetite of this journal editor whose own publications, including this journal, have been largely devoted to the idea that social scientists including political and policy scientists and public administrationists should devote their energies to the study of information and its flow in and around government. It follows that these same scholars should reduce their focus upon information and communication technologies [ICTs] and concentrate instead upon those adjectives that precede the T in that abbreviation. What do we know about the ways in which government actors are using information? Do we understand how information-intensive and much vaunted ‘evidence based’ policy making works in practice? Have we as scholars sufficiently focussed our attention upon how information that shapes policy formation is derived, how it is structured, what assumptions does it hold within it, whether it is more or less accommodating of specific socio-economic interests? Questioning such as this is needed on so many of the polity’s and society’s information-rich http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Information Polity IOS Press

Governance and Information Technology From Electronic Government to Information Government, by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and David Lazar

Information Polity , Volume 14 (3) – Jan 1, 2009
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Information Polity 14 (2009) 235–237 DOI 10.3233/IP-2009-0183 IOS Press Governance and Information Technology From Electronic Government to Information Government, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & David Lazar [eds]. London: MIT Press, 2007. This book promises much. It’s title alone is enough to whet the appetite of this journal editor whose own publications, including this journal, have been largely devoted to the idea that social scientists including political and policy scientists and public administrationists should devote their energies to the study of information and its flow in and around government. It follows that these same scholars should reduce their focus upon information and communication technologies [ICTs] and concentrate instead upon those adjectives that precede the T in that abbreviation. What do we know about the ways in which government actors are using information? Do we understand how information-intensive and much vaunted ‘evidence based’ policy making works in practice? Have we as scholars sufficiently focussed our attention upon how information that shapes policy formation is derived, how it is structured, what assumptions does it hold within it, whether it is more or less accommodating of specific socio-economic interests? Questioning such as this is needed on so many of the polity’s and society’s information-rich

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