Digital public governance: trends and risks

Abstract

Our world is becoming critically dependant on the human capacity to maintain dynamic equilibrium between massive digitalization of our life and protection of individual identities and interests. Many people adapt to new reality, though the reality may be virtual, shaping particular human kind, homo globalus (as defined by Dr. Ionut Iordache). Many people feel clueless facing all the things that are influencing our existence and behaviour, especially now, into a new digital paradigm. Based on the idea of Y. Bar-Yam noted in 1997 that “the emergent complexity is that the behaviours of many simple parts interact in such a way that the behaviour of the whole is complex. Elements are those parts of a complex system that may be considered simple when describing the behaviour of the whole” (Y. Bar-Yam), we will stop at innovation and information technology as crucial factors of influence over the actual public management system. Nowadays the public governance needs a new architecture designed to facilitate the flow of knowledge inside, along and outside the system. The governance, all over the world, seems to be in search of its new identity. This article aims to shape the perimeter of the picture associated with the convergence of information technology and public management in order to reveal the multivariate risks model of the digital (electronic) government. Today, public governance is ought to answer the following key question: How the government act could protect the legitimate interests of each participant of the country life in a digital standardization and unification based world