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Gov 2.0: Online engagement or a neo-liberal Trojan Horse? Dr Peter John Chen Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney [email protected]

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Gov 2.0: Online engagement or a neo-liberal Trojan

Horse?

Dr Peter John Chen

Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

[email protected]

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> What is gov 2.0?

> ICT-facilitated democracy in

Australia

> Assumptions

> Implications

> Future

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> What is gov 2.0?

>> A disruptive technology

>> Gov 2.0 taskforce

>> NPM and the third way

>> Our fertile ground

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> What is gov 2.0?

>> A disruptive technology

>> Gov 2.0 taskforce… a public policy shift to create a culture of openness and

transparency, where government is willing to engage with and listen

to its citizens; and to make available the vast national resource of

non-sensitive public sector information (PSI). Government 2.0

empowers citizens and public servants alike to directly collaborate in

their own governance by harnessing the opportunities presented by

technology.

>> NPM and the third way

>> Our fertile ground

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> What is gov 2.0?

>> A disruptive technology

>> Gov 2.0 taskforce

>> NPM and the third way

>> Our fertile ground

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> ICT-facilitated democracy in

Australia

>> Electronic and online service delivery

>> e-Democracy

>> Programmatic approaches and risk

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> Assumptions

>> Rise of the public sphere

>> Decline of the public sphere

>> Rise of the social

>> Marketplace of ideas

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> Implications

>> Citizenship

>> Government as a “platform”

>> Transmission

>> Emulation or subordination

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> Implications

>> Citizenship

>> Government as a “platform”

>> Transmission... every big winner has been a platform company: someone whose

success has enabled others, who’ve built on their work and multiplied

its impact. Microsoft put “a PC on every desk and in every home,” the

internet connected those PCs, Google enabled a generation of ad-

supported startups, Apple turned the phone market upside down by

letting developers loose to invent applications no phone company

would ever have thought of. In each case, the platform provider raised

the bar, and created opportunities for others to exploit.

>> Emulation or subordination

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> Implications

>> Citizenship

>> Government as a “platform”

>> Transmission

>> Emulation or subordination

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> Future

>> Capacities

>> Pluralism

>> Motivation

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Gov 2.0: Online engagement or a neo-liberal Trojan

Horse?

Dr Peter John Chen

Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

[email protected]