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(ICE) Information Communications Effectiveness now critical to political sustainabilitySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 23:09.
Information Communications Effectiveness (ICE) is now the key to governmental and political success. The benefit to citizens of effective government technology (IT) and telecommunications - from process improvements and knowledge management to ecommerce, communications, collaboration, individual empowerment and optimal economic development - is so powerful and transformational, it is inconceivable a less tech-savvy up-start could upstage an effective ICE-savvy incumbent. We have never seen an ICE-savvy politician surface in NEO, so all communities here are just waiting for information revolution. In the mean time, a posting on Brewed Fresh Daily references where consultants Civic Strategies are exploring the flip-side... what can "a public official do to thwart I agree, and go further to say in this information age officials failing with IT fail their citizens and community, and have no business trying to lead them at all. That NEO leaders don't get IT is a major reason for our economy failing here, for so long (I say that not as a sorehead but as an IT analyst). In the UK, a citizen is drawing attention to fainings in his country and empowering citizens there to address leadership directly, through the Ideal Government website. Great initiative, and a smart evolution is for government leaders to embrace such a feedback process and do all this right from the inside, from the start. For some pointers on how, take a look to the UK. From Ideal Government: About the Ideal Government ProjectWouldn't it be better if... Ideal government is a web user's antidote to personal frustration with 1. Observe and record precisely what happens, and 2. what the ideal encounter should have been like. Join us and post it up here. Gradually we could map out the reality of Ideal Government - the next big idea The next stage is called Wibbipedia. The plan is a project to create an
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