Introduction: What is eGovernance? Where is it and where’s it going? / Leslie Budd and Lisa Harris
I. Setting the Governance Scene
1. Digital-era Governance Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts, Simon Bastow, and Jane Tinkler
2. WSIS, WGIG and Global Governance of the Internet Richard Collins
3. Post-Lisbon Governance in the EU: A Zero-sum Game? Leslie Budd
II. Enabling and Managing Technologies
4. Mobile Telephony as Citizen Engagement Technology Lisa Harris and Jane Vincent
5. Technologies to Enable Lowering Regulatory Costs of Enterprise Development Alan Rae
6. Collateral Damage? The Impact of Government Policy on UK Higher Education Simran Grewal
III. Functional Fields for Egovernance?
7. eUniversities: Corporate Higher Education Geoff Peters
8. eGovernance and Local Government Janice Morphet
9. Enabling Equality of Internet Access for the Disabled Charles Dennis and Fintan Clear
10. Governance in Transition Economies Antoaneta Serguieva and Kamen
11. Managing or Governing? Conclusions for Governance Futures Leslie Budd and Lisa Harris
Biography
Leslie Budd is a Reader in Social Enterprise at the Open University Business School and Associate of Capital Business Strategies Ltd.
Lisa Harris is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton School of Management, UK.
"e-Governance: rhetoric and the realities – this is the theme for this insightful book, offering several penetrating analyses by scholars with different experience. Leslie Budd and Lisa Harris have succeeded in putting together a volume that penetrates behind the discourse and displays the variety of real outcomes. It is a must read for people searching for DEG = Digital era governance, as it reveals its limits."
--Jan-Erik Lane, University of the South Pacific
