- From: Jose M. Alonso <josema@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:16:55 +0100
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Cc: "Dr D.C.Misra" <dc_misra@hotmail.com>, <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
El 06/03/2009, a las 16:30, Robin Berjon escribió: > On Mar 6, 2009, at 13:43 , Jose M. Alonso wrote: >> I have noticed several big companies changing the name of their >> eGovernment units and using now "public sector". > > That's what I was going to say. Isn't the "e" part now so pervasive > in public sector work that it becomes sort of hard to split out? I think it will happen sooner or later. I said recently that the "e" is already being removed from the equation [1]. Take the following as an example. The Spanish National Gazzette (BOE) [2] is being published from 1 January 2009 only in electronic/digital form, i.e. the paper version ceased to exist on the previous day. The Gazzette was published in both formats (paper and electronic) for a few years. Of course, electronic version already had a number of features not present in the paper-based ones, e.g. you could automatically search for a given piece of text. So although the text was the same in both versions, there were distinctions between the electronic and paper-based formats, they were not exactly the same. What about now? There's no paper version. The only one that exists, the only authoritative source is now on the Web. I think this is something we'll see more and more often in the coming years, services we consider eGovernment ones will became _the_ government services. Whether that will happen in 5, 10 or 15 years, I don't know, and it'll depend on the area of the World we would be talking about, but several governments have already reached a 100% sophistication level on all the basic services they provide. Watch out for the change. -- Josema ps: at an organization that uses ancient technologies such as IRC, we could stick to the eGovernment term for quite some time, no? ;)) [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/Talks/1128-Berlin-JA/Slides#(11) [2] http://www.boe.es/diario_boe/ > -- > Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ > Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/
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