Public Sector in the Internet Revolution:What Are the gains?
| Main Author: | Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib |
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| Format: | Article NonPeerReviewed |
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
, 2001
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| Online Access: |
https://repository.ugm.ac.id/19698/ http://i-lib.ugm.ac.id/jurnal/download.php?dataId=2531 |
Daftar Isi:
- The current human interaction that happens in the public office. business, school, factory, and cafe or street corner in the modern world is taking place at the helm of the "network of the networks." Ironical/-, there has been ci seismic shift of human communications. At the center of it, all is the Internet. Linked by mass communications and multimedia networks, the world's technologically-enabled public sector is not left behind, hitherto, forging ahead their shared interests into a fledging one crucial mission: to achieve higher efficiency, effectiveness, and petformance in the delivery of public services. However, experience shows that this fact is far from the reality to developing countries' public sector due to many key factors. Perhaps fundamental among them is the absence of policy commitment to investing more on education, training, and development that could otherwise promise viable, competent, and highly developed human resources, ready to speed-up the internet culture. Therefore, this paper, which is a thought piece, looks at the origin and development of the Internet. Although the administrative state appears in total disarray to curb the biter-net, yet, its origin is directly linked to government's own effort that focused to enable a small, elite group of researchers to share critical scientific information. Meanwhile, the development and spread of the Internetare connected to the trends of privatizalion, globalization, curd its promise. This paper also examines the current pros and cons of the Internet, and how the public sector looks quite set to gain from it. Public sector turned to online resources for many of their core functions, including economic development, human and social service delivery and engagement with citizens. Despite the present government's paradoxical situation on handling the cyberspace, finally, this paper concludes that whatever policy objectives toward an appropriate direction and development of the Internet, public sector remains a sole key actor. Arguably, the public sector in ULM, should recognize the need to establish a negotiating link and cooperation not just with the private sector but also with the 'third sector" that have been so important in prodding the policy direction on the internet.