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América Latina en la era del gobierno electrónico. Análisis de la introducción de nuevas tecnologías para la mejora de la democracia y el gobierno

Yanina Welp-2008-01-01-Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
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"Although democracy has been consolidated in Latin America, coexists with an increasing citizen dissatisfaction derived from the distance between the implemented policies and the citizen expectations. The uses of new technologies for the governments' control, the improvement of the services delivering and the opening of participation spaces emerge as key actions that could contribute to overcome the existing problems. In recent years, there has been evidence that Latin American governments have been developing public policies to promote the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). However, the effect and use of ICT, and of the Internet in particular, as tools for the improvement of the performance of democratic political systems in Latin America has been scarcely studied. The aim of this article is to assess these developments and their effects. The objective of this study is to identify the main initiatives developed by the national governments and to analyze to what e

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"Although democracy has been consolidated in Latin America, coexists with an increasing citizen dissatisfaction derived from the distance between the implemented policies and the citizen expectations. The uses of new technologies for the governments' control, the improvement of the services delivering and the opening of participation spaces emerge as key actions that could contribute to overcome the existing problems. In recent years, there has been evidence that Latin American governments have been developing public policies to promote the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). However, the effect and use of ICT, and of the Internet in particular, as tools for the improvement of the performance of democratic political systems in Latin America has been scarcely studied. The aim of this article is to assess these developments and their effects. The objective of this study is to identify the main initiatives developed by the national governments and to analyze to what e

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