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GOVERNING IN AN INFORMATION SOCIETY
by Steven Rosell
 From the foreword:
One of the most basic of those transformative forces is the emergence
of a global information society. What are the implications for governance
of the complex of social and technological changes that define the information
society? What are more effective and appropriate ways of governing in
that context? These are questions to which, as yet, research provides
few answers. But they are questions with which practitioners increasingly
must cope. To begin to address these issues more systematically, and
to examine how they play through the crisis in governance we face, [we]
convened a roundtable of researchers and government practitioners to
undertake a two year program of action research. Governing in an
Information Society reports the first results of that program.
The report describes the ongoing process of learning undertaken by the participants which, itself, became a metaphor for the new approaches to governance the information society will require. With sometimes startling frankness, the participants draw on the insights of leading international authorities with whom they met, on case studies undertaken within their areas of responsibility, and on their own extensive experience, to question conventional ways of thinking, and to struggle toward a new understanding of governing in an information society. As they underline in this path-breaking report, they only could begin the work that will need to be done, but it is a most promising and thought-provoking beginning.
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