SummerProgram2009/Web and Government
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Participants
James Michaelis
Alvaro Graves
Christos Koumenides
Honglei Zeng
Establishing eGovernment Infrastructure
How do we gauge readiness of nations for this?
One possibility: the United Nations e-Government Readiness Index
General Ideas to Explore
- Accountability
- Relation of government and citizen (buy a car)
- Communication between agencies
- Investigate differences between different governments
- Find use cases
- Moving to a new place/Investing: finding crime rates, prices, growth, population, weather, etc..
- Building a house: construction restrictions, health coverage in the area, quality of schools....hip
Moving from one state to another
- Medical/crime records should moved too
- Privacy issues
- If you are a criminal, how to ensure that moving privately?
- Taxes (mistakes, fraud detection?)
- Tracking individual behavior
Building a house
- Obtaining information (weather, crime rate, real estate, school quality (education), health care, average income, population, geographic info, demographic, etc...)
- Learn the workflow of process to build a house (buying land, limits of construction, etc...)
- Transactions (transferring ownership of land, validated by government).
- Communication between government agencies.
Brainstorm
- How government can gather all this information?
- How to present this information.
- Implementations? What technologies to use (if there exist already)? How Web may help?
- Privacy issues?
- Provenance of information sources (can that information be trusted?)
- Define public policies using this data (rate of smoking people, in order to define lung cancer policies)
- Improve tourism using government tourism
e-government
term used to denote the use of information technologies, such as the Web, to deliver/provide government services to citizens, businesses, employees, and other governments. This case study, considers a government-to-citizen senario. We further narrow the focus to US government activities and practices only.
SCENARIO
A family in the United States wishes to move to a new state, such as XYZ, where it is also considering to purchase a new house (very likely will want to make an investment with this house). Our intent is to present ways that e-government, primarily through the use of the world wide web, can help our imaginary family gain thorough geographic and demographic information about the new state. We believe this information is vital to anyone moving across states and should not require a "middle-man" (example) to gather and transform the information in a suitable format for the user/citizen to understand. Furthermore, we look towards an e-government that will be able to assist buyers and sellers of land and property in completing the necessary transactions (conditions for transferring ownership).
Why use the World Wide Web?
- low entry barriers, widely used system - ubiquitous - more accessible - web technologies and open platforms for development and retrieval
(cont') catalog of information besides maps
- weather, climate
- crime rates
- value of land, real estate
- education...schools, colleges, universities. Information about their quality, ethnic groups etc.
- health care. Still ways to go with public health care
- population, average income levels, class groups (?), unemployment rates
- information on transactions (can these be completed online?)
- Graphs/maps with crime rates, education, health care, police/fire coverage, etc. embedded on them would be very helpful foe display purposes.
Can we create a sketchy picture of such a map? It might be helpful..
(cont') issues with current practices
User has to go to a middle-man or consult the corresponding government departments (?).
(cont') proposed solution
Agent/website to deliver this information. Make use of Semantic Web technologies (explain why and how), Ajax, google maps (rendered, attached to copyrights/policies and provided by e-government)
Presentation
| Participant | James Michaelis +, Alvaro Graves +, Christos Koumenides +, and Honglei Zeng + |
| Slides | File:Web and Government.ppt + |
| Title | Web and Government + |
