The view from the other side of smart governance!

The different levels of addressing the e-of-things have burgeoned and proliferated in such a way that the exact scale and nature of understanding carried by this e-something has caused a multiple of disarray among not only government entities but among the citizens and every institution that works for social development. This gap of understanding has also increased the impact of any development. Hence the lack of concerted and adopted standards have caused, particularly in societies of developing countries, a widespread of e-democracy, e-participation, e-community, etc. that are of varying levels. One wonders then why in these developing countries which need democracy, collaboration and citizen participation more than all other countries, a dynamic and efficient balance of the politics, socioeconomic development and social societies fail to align into a cohesive power rather than scatter efforts thus minimizing impact and results. I believe a triple helix model to control such forces can be adopted to achieve this end. Certainly political instability and lack of good governance would be difficult to defeat in a short time, but enlisting the true power of e-participation and e-collaboration to transform the majority of the society into a well prepared e-community would quickly develop e-democratic models of operation including e-voting and for that matter “e-prosperity!”