The aim of this book is to analyze four dimensions of innovating government and the use of new technologies: legal, ethical, policy and technological dimensions. By joining authors from a diversity of backgrounds (law, ethics, public administration, political science, sociology, communications science, information science, and computer science) in one book, readers (academics, policy makers, legislators and others) are confronted with a variety of disciplinary perspectives on persistent themes, like privacy, biometrics, surveillance, e-democracy, electronic government, and identity management, that are central to today's evolution of new modes of modern government.
1 Innovating Government - an introduction to the book.- Part I Normative and ethical dimensions .- 2 Privacy 3.0.- 3 Normative assumptions in biometrics - on bodily differences and automated classifications.- 4 Electronic exchange of signals on youth at risk - a value perspective.- 5 Regulating invisible harms.- Part II Policy dimensions - Democracy .- 6 The single point of failure.- 7 Electronic voting: Approaches, strategies, and policy issues - a report from Switzerland.- 8 Striving behind the shadow - the dawn of Spanish politics 2.0.- Part III Policy dimensions - Surveillance .- 9 The normality of living in surveillance societies.- 10 The evolution of new technologies of surveillance in children's services in England.- 11 Electronic Child Records in the Netherlands - a legitimate path to right wrongs?.- 12 Legitimacy issues regarding citizen surveillance - the case of ANPR-technology in Dutch policing.- 13 The introduction of biometrics in the Netherlands - an evaluation under data protection and administrative law.- Part IV Legal dimensions - EU Law perspectives.- 14 The use of biometrics at the borders - a European policy and law perspective.- 15 Privacy and data protection aspects of e-government identity management.- 16 eHealth from a Dutch perspective.- 17 Implementation of the EU Services Directive: on eGovernment in a decentralized unitary state .- 18 The impact of Europe on geo-information.- Part V Legal dimensions - Techno-legal perspectives .- 19 Sharing information between government agencies - some legal challenges associated with semantic interoperability.- 20 Public information infrastructures and identity fraud.- 21 Access to law in Europe.- Part VI Legal dimensions - Law and philosophy perspective .- 22 Identity theft and fraud.- Part VII Technological dimensions .- 23 Biometrics and smart cards in identity management.- 24 How devices transform voting.- Part VIII Synthesis .- 25 A Brave New Government?
