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From: [log in to unmask] on behalf of anita chan Sent: Sun 28/01/2007 22:34 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: 4S Session CFP: Anatomies of E-Government Hi all, I am organizing a panel titled "Anatomies of E-Government" that aims to make a critical dissection of national electronic government initiatives. The description is below, and if interested please contact me at: Anita Chan, [log in to unmask] Ph.D. Candidate, Program in Science, Technology, & Society, MIT "Anatomies of E-government" Panel CFP: In recent years, governments worldwide have begun to launch a range of state initiatives that collectively come to be known as Electronic Government. Promising to modernize government and prepare citizens for the global, information-based economy, such projects are increasingly playing key roles in both industrialized and industrializing states economic development agendas. But E-government is proving to be anything but a single entity whose definition scholars can assume has been fixed and established. It is instead emerging as a multiply malleable state strategy that manifests through such diverse pursuits as the integration of new information technologies (IT) into government functions (from providing national security to vote counting), enhancing public access to IT (through education or rural access projects), encouraging the regional development of private IT industries and the training of knowledge workers, and reforming the regulation of digital goods and intellectual property. This panel thus begins with the proposition that we uncover the diverse anatomies of e-government, tracing out the various social, political, and technological bodies that are born in the drive to remake governments as e-governments. What new actors, alliances, artifacts and architectures figure centrally in the pursuit of electronic government? What locally- or globally-situated practices do such bodies dedicate themselves to in a process of defining and enacting e-government? What languages and logics (or pathologies) do such bodies produce? Which relations prove critical? Which are remade? And which prove, perhaps, to be disposable? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You can view archived STSGRAD messages at http://groups.google.com/group/STSGRAD You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "STSGRAD" group. To post to this group, send email to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [log in to unmask] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/STSGRAD -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************