Initiating e-Participation Through a Knowledge Working Network

Rasmussen, Louise; Davenport, Elisabeth; Horton, Keith

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-39229-5_9

Initiating e-Participation Through a Knowledge Working Network

Rasmussen, Louise; Davenport, Elisabeth; Horton, Keith

Authors

Louise Rasmussen

Elisabeth Davenport

Keith Horton

Contributors

R Suomi
Editor

R Cabral
Editor

J F Hampe
Editor

A Heikkila
Editor

J Jarvelainen
Editor

Abstract

The authors present a study of e-participation within a public sector agency (PSA), where a number of knowledge management initiatives have been introduced since the inception of the UK 'Modernising government' programme of 1999. The agency has attempted to set up an internal participatory infrastructure to manage 'knowledge' across the network of local enterprise companies through which agency policy is operationalised. The trajectory of knowledge management versions in PSA is thus a rich indicator of power-plays in the organisation, and the discussion uses discourse analysis to explore the document base (field notes, textual data paper and electronic, formal and informal) that was produced at three historical moments. The aim is to understand patterns of participation and resistance in a number of einitiatives within the agency. The authors highlight the choices relating to the stimulating, fostering, encouraging, embracing, contesting, ignoring, and perhaps rejecting of this e-participation project. Such insights are important to our understanding of the influences upon e-governmental initiatives, an area of UK public spending that is littered with IT project failures.

Citation

Rasmussen, L., Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006, October). Initiating e-Participation Through a Knowledge Working Network

Presentation Conference Type	Conference Paper (published)
Start Date	Oct 11, 2006
End Date	Oct 13, 2006
Publication Date	2006
Deposit Date	Feb 16, 2010
Publicly Available Date	Feb 16, 2010
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	226
Pages	96-108
Series Title	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Series Number	226
Series ISSN	1868-4238
Book Title	Project E-Society: Building Bricks. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
ISBN	9780387392264
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39229-5_9
Keywords	e-participation; public sector agency; knowledge management; "Modernising Government"; local enterprise;
Public URL	http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3454
Publisher URL	http://www.springerlink.com/content/u0t777x8200hr647/
Contract Date	Feb 16, 2010