ReInventing Politics

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Re-Inventing Politics Governance in Cyberspace

• byDaniel van Lerberghe
• President Executive Director
• POLITECH INSTITUTE

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Overview

• New Challenges
• Cyberspace A New Environment
• Modern Politics Changes Transformations
• Redefine Modern Politics Governance in
  Cyberspace
• Sustain Efficient Use of Cyberspace
• Conclusion

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New Challenges

• Technological Challenges
• New Borderless Horizons
• New Forms of Human Interaction
• The New knowledge-based Democratic society
• Socio-political Challenges
• Globalization Security Threats
• Multi-level Governance (e.g. EU)
• More Transparency the Growing Democratic
  Deficit
• The civic dialogue the relationships between
  the different political, public and civil actors
  of the civil society and the citizens
• A Growing Need to Redefine Modern Politics and
  Governance in Cyberspace

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New ChallengesCyberspace A New Environment

• A New Form of Collective Intelligence (Pierre
  Levy) in a New Transnational Environment
• New Forms of Human Interactions, Exchange of
  Information and Organization Home, Work with
  Governments
• A Global Civil Society ? for Anyone, Anywhere,
  at Anytime
• Cyberspace has become a key media
• global scale public debates
• exchange of information
• more transparency
• No Time, No Space

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New ChallengesModern Politics Changes
Transformations

• The Growing Gap btw Political Actors Citizens
  (One-Level Governance Multi-level Governance)
• The relationship constant dialogue btw
  political actors citizens
• The participation of the citizens to the
  democratic process
• The Political Entrepreneur
• more efficient competitive, mobilize its
  stakeholders and resources to achieve public
  affairs objectives
• Create a sustainable relationship with the
  citizens
• Accountable respond to the demands of its
  constituencies
• Increase public support for its actions
  (National International)
• Constant Campaign.

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Redefine Modern Politics Governance in
Cyberspace

• 4 New Dimensions to Public e-Governance
  Interlinked Interrelated
• e-Government
• e-Democracy
• e-Politics
• 4. e-Diplomacy (multi-level governance
  Net-Centric Conflict Prevention and Management
  From Warfare to Peacemaking, From Cyber-terrorism
  to Intelligence Gathering, Digital Divide
  Cultural Differences, The International Civil
  Society)
• Success Failures

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Redefine Modern Politics Governance in
Cyberspace

• 3 Key Elements Toward a Common Redefinition of
  Modern Politics governance in Cyberspace
• Politics in Cyberspace is a totally different
  ballgame (Douglas Holmes, 2001)
• An e-Strategy as Part of a Global Strategy
• Anticipate Technological Changes Impacts
• A Sustain Common Consultation Framework

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Sustain Efficient Use of Cyberspace

• Mastering Cyberspace as a new tool for public
  leaders and institutions to empower, activate,
  educate, and mobilize citizens to achieve public
  affairs objectives
• Establish a constant and sustainable relationship
  between the citizens and its representatives,
  while being aware of the existing technologies
  proposed and used
• The political visionaries pioneers of
  Cyberspace (i.e. Ventura (1998) Fladmark (1997)
  French Presidential Elections (2002) Howard Dean
  (2004)
• Citizen Relationship Management or Transforming
  Politics Governance in Cyberspace

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Conclusion

• Cyberspace is more and more present in our lives
  and tomorrow, political, public and civil actors
  will be judged by the way they are using ICT as
  today they are in our more classical media
• To develop an efficient and sustainable
  e-strategy, complementary of the Global Strategy
  to respond to the different social and political
  challenges of our modern political and governing
  process
• To Establish A sustainable Consultation Framework
  to Generate Innovation and Excellence Bridging
  the 4 Dimensions of e-Governance
• To provide guidelines for adapting existing
  e-Strategies to future technological and
  socio-political changes.

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THANK YOU

• Daniel van Lerberghe
• email danielvl_at_politech-institute.org
• POLITECH INSTITUTE
• European Center of Political Technologies
• Address Saint Bernard, 67 Brussels B-1060
  Belgium
• email info_at_politech-institute.org website
  www.politech-institute.org