%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Citizen Surveillance of the State: A mirror for eGovernment?
%+ Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
%+ University of New Brunswick (UNB)
%A Verplanke, Jeroen
%A Martinez, Javier
%A Miscione, Gianluca
%A Georgiadou, Yola
%A Coleman, David
%A Hassan, Abdishakur Awil
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 9th IFIP TC9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC) / 1st IFIP TC11 International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIP) / Held as Part of World Computer Congress (WCC)
%C Brisbane, Australia
%Y Jacques Berleur; Magda David Hercheui; Lorenz M. Hilty
%I Springer
%3 What Kind of Information Society? Governance, Virtuality, Surveillance, Sustainability, Resilience
%V AICT-328
%P 185-201
%8 2010-09-20
%D 2010
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-15479-9_19
%K Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
%K Geographic ICT (geoICT)
%K Electronic Government (eGovernment)
%K Electronic Grievance (eGrievance)
%K Virtual Globe
%K Google Earth (GE)
%K Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI).
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL]Conference papers
%X This paper discusses, conceptually and empirically, the role of geographic ICT (geoICT) and virtual globes (e.g. Google Earth) at the interface of public policy and citizens. Our preliminary findings from on-going field work in an Indian city and in Zanzibar suggest that virtual globe technology can potentially transfer to citizens surveillance power, traditionally held by the government. Starting from the traditional electronic government framework, where bureaucracy acts as a filter between policy makers and citizens with grievances, we outline an emerging framework where commercial virtual globes act as mediators between policy-makers and citizens. We show that the emerging framework holds the potential of allowing citizens concerned, in our case, about the quality of water services, to influence policy makers directly. The virtual globe acts as a mirror to the traditional eGovernment framework and lends a different societal visibility both to public services provision, and to localized citizens' needs.
%G English
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01058190/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01058190/file/03280194.pdf
%L hal-01058190
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01058190
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%~ IFIP-TC11
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