GOVERNING IN AN INFORMATION-SOCIETY

Authors
Citation
Sa. Rosell, GOVERNING IN AN INFORMATION-SOCIETY, Technological forecasting & social change, 54(1), 1997, pp. 29-35
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Business,"Planning & Development
ISSN journal
00401625
Volume
54
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
29 - 35
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-1625(1997)54:1<29:GIAI>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
This article describes the work being undertaken by a roundtable of se nior government officials and private sector executives in Canada, who have been working together to examine the implications for governance of the emergence of a global information society and to develop more effective approaches to governing in that new context. It describes ho w the members of the roundtable have conceptualized the information so ciety and some of the challenges it poses. It summarizes the action-le arning process they have followed to explore these issues more deeply and to experiment with better approaches to governing in the informati on society. And it outlines some of the initial findings to emerge fro m their continuing work. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Inc.