ITM 703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: E-Democracy, Effective Competition, Human Capital

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 703
• Professor: Farid Shirazi

Document Summary

At the basic level, democracy denotes a form of governance in which all constitutes are able to participate by standing for election to public office and electing others to represent their interests. This also includes the right to challenge and/or call to account an existing governance for actions that violate public trust. It"s pluralistic composition among parties and individuals for all positions of government power. It"s participation feature that allows citizens equal opportunities in the selection of parties and representation through free, fair, and periodic elections. It"s civil and political liberties to speak, publish, assemble, and organize as necessary conditions to ensure effective competition and participation: e-democracy framework. Ict interacts with media, becomes social media: components of egovt: according to un"s definition, an egovt system contains 3 main components. Online services (2 way communication if possible) Hci contains components such as education index, health, gdp per capita (measure of national income: un classified e-governance in 4 major categories.