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From Digital Government to Digital Governance: Are We There Yet?

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Erkut, Burak·2020·Sustainability
DOI 10.3390/su12030860
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This paper focuses on the knowledge problem of economics by discussing its current status in light of digitalization. This problem highlights the paradox of not having the necessary knowledge to take an economic decision, but pretending to have it and act, hence questioning the legitimacy of governmental decision-making and its impacts on the economy. Current technological developments are challenging this problem. Big Data has been a neglected phenomenon when it comes to its impact on the nature of knowledge and the decision-making processes associated with it, and it is easy to think that Big Data solves this problem. This research gap is evaluated by re-visiting the knowledge problem and evaluating whether the knowledge problem can still be valid in the digital era. The digital governance issue has been largely covered by literature in terms of technical possibilities. However, the main challenge is not the technical one, but rather how to create governance structures to involve people in decision-making processes, and at the same not fall into the trap of the knowledge problem. The sustainable transition from digital government to digital governance is a transition from a technical structure to multiple processes on different levels, and these processes have their own limits.

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Authors
Erkut, B.
Affiliations
Bahçeşehir Cyprus University (CY)
Corresponding author
Erkut, Burak
ORCID
Erkut, Burak
Venue
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2020-01-23
Volume
12
Issue
3
Pages
860
ISSN
2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/su12030860
OpenAlex
W3002991859
Cited by
110
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 4
FWCI
40.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › E-Government and Public Services
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Smart Cities and Technologies
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Political Analysis
Keywords
e-government, digital governance, big data, decision-making legitimacy, public decision-making, governance structures, citizen participation, digitalization, limits of knowledge

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