- •Unit 1. Access to information and public administration Topics Key Structure
- •The potential of e-government
- •Glossary
- •Active vocabulary
- •Task 1. Read the text carefully looking up any new items in a dictionary and answer the following questions:
- •Citizen, contractor, to facilitate, interaction, access, competition
- •To provide – to supply
- •Task 6. Out of two italicized words choose the one which will fit in the context.
- •Task 10. Fill in the gaps with prepositions where necessary
- •Extensive Reading Read and discuss the texts given below.
- •1. Access law
- •2) Helsinki, 7 April, 2003 — Finnish Online Government: Progress Report
- •Key structure- Passive Voice
- •Interview
- •Vidin, Bulgaria
- •Challenges to the Transformative Potential of e-Government
- •Questions for Discussion
- •1. Carry our comparative analysis of the web-sites of any similar Russian and American or British Ministry using the following parameters:
- •Interactivity;
- •2. Carry out comparative analysis of the web-sites of Russian and American Presidents and establish their identity and difference. Make a team presentation summarising your observations.
1. Carry our comparative analysis of the web-sites of any similar Russian and American or British Ministry using the following parameters:
design;
content structure;
Interactivity;
user-friendliness;
updating.
Make a 10 minute presentation summarising you observations.
2. Carry out comparative analysis of the web-sites of Russian and American Presidents and establish their identity and difference. Make a team presentation summarising your observations.
1 Gartner Group, Key Issues in e-Government Strategy and Management," Research Notes, Key Issues, 23 May 2000.
2 For example, to fund the Contact Centre in Birmingham, U.K., the Council is spending BP1.6 million ($2.3 million), plus BP1.9 million ($2.75 million) for other IT infrastructure. This IT infrastructure investment has to compete in Birmingham with social services, education, and other departments for funding. Of course, Birmingham is much larger than Vidin, but it also has much more substantial financial resources.
3 A Survey of Government and the Internet: The Next Revolution. The Economist, 24 June 2000, p. 2.
4 To help address this issue in the United States, the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM) created special salary rates, ranging from seven percent to 33 percent, for most government information technology workers in the G5 through G12 pay grades. Colleen O'Hara and Paula Shaki Trimble, "Agencies Fill IT Pay Gaps," Federal Computer Week, 5 February 2001, p. 26.
5 CRS Report RL30661, Government Information Technology Management: Past and Future Issues (The Clinger-Cohen Act), by Jeffrey W. Seifert; Greg Langlois and Paula Shaki Trimble, "Projecting a Hip Image," Federal Computer Week, 16 April 2001, p. 24.
6 See CRS Report RL30914, Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO): Opportunities and Challenges, by Jeffrey W. Seifert for a more comprehensive analysis of this issue.
7 Anil Srivastava, “E-Governance in India—Withstanding Challenges of Transparency,” Independent Study Project, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, May 2003, p. 17.
8 Ibid. p. 43.