[LINK] web information architecture - what are the issues you see?
Tom Worthington
Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Fri Aug 17 09:08:16 AEST 2007
At 11:05 AM 16/08/2007, Janet Hawtin wrote:
>On 8/15/07, Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
>
>>As an example I propose we provide government, education and
>>housing, in a "box" for remote indigenous communities ...
>
>I do not know enough about Tom's proposal to be able to comment on
>that directly. ...
There are more details at the web address I
provided:
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2007/07/putting-australian-government-online.html>.
>... If this is pay to play access to a subscription to software then
>that has some social implications. If it means there are less face
>to face services available then that also has implications. ...
Yes. My assumption is that if you have to have the federal government
interfering in your life, it will be less intrusive if it is done via
a computer than face to face. Also it will be cheaper and the money
saved can be spent on useful services. As an example the federal
government now provides reports online. That saves on printing costs
and makes the reports more widely available. For those without
Internet access there is free Internet access at public libraries.
>... What do those choices mean for local people in terms of skills,
>access, leadership, control, voice, local value, privacy and rights
>to participation and access to services etc.
Given a choice between having a succession of highly paid public
servants from the city come in, interfere in my local community and
then leave (taking most of the government money with them), or a web
based service, I think I would prefer the web based service.
>What do those choices mean for local people in terms of skills,
>access, leadership, control, voice, local value, privacy and rights
>to participation and access to services etc. ...
My thought was to provide tools which the local community could use
to govern themselves and provide many of the services themselves. The
local council could use a government approved web based system to
administer local services using local staff, instead of having
someone from elsewhere doing it to them. Local welfare organisations
could provide services with the accounting done on-line, allowing
automated remote auditing. Instead of having a welfare worker telling
you what you could and couldn't spend your welfare payment on, an
auotmated system would do you a budget and it would tell you what you
could and could not spend money on.
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