Handbook of Public Information Systems, Second Edition
Published on 20. January 2000
Book
Hardback
640 pages
978-0-8247-8244-3 (ISBN)
Description
Written by more than 60 contributors who depict the remarkable transformation of the public management profession by computers, this book presents the historical, institutional, legal, organizational, functional, policy, and theoretical background that constitutes IT literacy for public service. The book describes the application of IT to training, budgeting, and policy simulation at the federal level, and to community planning, community telecommunications, and welfare at the state level. Providing a broad and timely overview of IT as it applies to the public sector the book collects critical knowledge and delivers insight into contemporary uses of IT in the public sphere.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
1315 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8247-8244-3 (9780824782443)
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Christopher M. Shea | G. David Garson
Handbook of Public Information Systems, Second Edition
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03/2005
2nd Edition
Marcel Dekker Inc
€95.31
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Content
Part 1 Background: the legislative foundation of information access policy - balancing access against privacy and confidentiality; FOIA and the emergence of federal information policy in the 1980s and 1990s; information technology, public policy andCanadian governance - partnerships and predicaments; is technological progress social progress . Part 2 Organizational research: the politics of public information systems; the need for strategic information systems planning when contracting-out andprivatizing public sector functions; technology launch in government - the human factor; a core-periphery approach to centralization/decentralization issues in public information systems; the impact of IT investment on organization performance in thepublic sector; mitigating the risk of information technology initiatives - best practices and points of failure for the public sector; intergovernmental cooperation in the development and use of information systems; webbing governance -nationaldifferences in constructing the public face. Part 3 Policy issues: electronic access to public records; intellectual property law and the public manager; security issues for automated information systems; proposals for citizen participation and directdemocracy through computer networking; the information age - which nations will benefit . Part 4 Case studies: cyber-communications - congressional use of information technologies; innovations in computing and legislating - a case study of the New YorkState Legislature; building relevant policy data systems for multiple stakeholders - the Maine education information partnership; managing government Web services in Florida - issues and solutions; planning centralized immunization registries -diseaseprevention, cost reduction and implications for privacy. Part 5 Applications - federal and general: computer-based training in the public sector; guidelines for public sector systems acquisition; public finance and electronic information systems;information systems and the interdisciplinary budget model; budgetary analysis using computer tools; designing effective agency database - the development of the data warehouse concept.