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UK Online is a centralised initiative which attempts to structure the nature of Government- citizen interaction, part of which is to expand notions of “citizen involvement” using technological approaches. The UK Online initiative lies within a general process of “modernisation” that is driven by the UK Government’s White Paper Modernising Government 1. We suggest that this project — along with other UK e-Government projects — which advertise a avowedly neutral strategy of developing ICT in government actually involves an attempt on the part of Government to structure and control a new space that is opened up.
HMSO Cmd 4310 1999.
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Leith, P., Morison, J. (2002). UK Online: Forcing Citizen Involvement into a Technically-Oriented Framework?. In: Traunmüller, R., Lenk, K. (eds) Electronic Government. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46138-8_68
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