Transcript transnational digital government

TRANSNATIONAL DIGITAL
GOVERNMENT (TDG):
The Future in the Near-Term
Transnational Digital
Government (TDG):
A SCENARIO
 1. Two men arrive at a remote border port of
entry. Immigration official queries
headquarters.
Technologies: Voice recognition / Security privacy
technology access to central database.
 2. Belize’s central immigration computer
grants access to immigration official.
Technologies: Voice recognition / security-privacy /
information filtering / networking / Internet
technologies / machine translation
Transnational Digital Government:
A SCENARIO
 3. Belize computer queries the Dominican
Republic. Dominican Republic finds and
transmits files to Belize
Technologies: Machine translation / network
optimization technology / Security – privacy / Internet
and middleware technology.
 4. Belize’s central computer communicates with
the immigration official at the remote border.
Technologies: Information filtering / voice
communication / automatic commands based on data
received.
 5. Belize’s central computer alerts the police.
Technologies: Voice recognition / network technology /
Internet technology
Transnational Digital
Government Project
 3 years – US$1,500,000
 Financed by U.S. National Science Foundation
(NSF)
 Evolution:
 CICAD’s 1999 approval in Montevideo of the
construction of a hemispheric-wide drug
information network using advanced
information technology
 NSF desire to solve real world problems
through information technology research
TRANSNATIONAL DIGITAL
GOVERNMENT
 Governments doing business with each other,
collaborating, and sharing information using
technology -- digitally-based technology
 Neighbors sharing information with neighbors --
health officials to health officials; health officials to
police; police to police
DIGITAL GOVERNMENT:
the way of organizing and providing for
a society’s essential objectives utilizing
digital technology
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collective security
justice administration
health and education
economic infrastructure
group participation and assent
DIGITAL GOVERNMENT
Carrying out public sector functions
using computers and other digital
technologies
 Integration of information from multiple
locations and the innovative delivery of
services through the provision of access
over the Web.
 Citizen access to government information
and services.
FOCUS:
The challenge is maintaining the primary focus
on government functions and not on the
technologies. In implementing digital
government it is advisable for
agencies/ministries to keep 3 questions in
mind:
1. What public functions are we responsible for?
2. How can we responsibly transform our current
business models while incorporating new and
emerging technologies?
3. Are these new business models reflective of
the collective concerns and priorities of the
public?
Theresa A. Pardo, http://www.cisp.org/imp/october_2000/10_00pardo.htm
NSF / CICAD Collaboration
for
Transnational Digital Government
2002 – Project in
TRANSNATIONAL DIGITAL
GOVERNMENT
STATUS: IN EXECUTION
TDG Colaborators
 OAS/CICAD/OID
 Belize
National Drug Abuse Control Council (NDACC)
 University of Belize
 Dominican Republic
 Consejo Nacional de Drogas (CND)
 Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
 United States
 University of Florida
 University of Massachusetts
 University of Colorado
 Carnegie Melon University
 North Carolina State University
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TDG:
The function
 IMMIGRATION
 REMOTE
BORDER
CONTROL
AT POINTS OF
ENTRY
 SUPPORT FOR
MEM
“DISPLACEMENT”
INDICATOR #83
TDG:
Technologies Being Tested
 Spoken dialogue systems to collect, access and
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retrieve information;
Machine translation technology to gather and share
data in different languages;
Active data management and security techniques for
rule-based secure data sharing and filtering;
Network behavior modeling and optimization to deliver
high quality service with no crashes or down time
Middleware for transnational (heterogeneous)
information grids that enable private, secure and
dependable automation of collaboration processes and
policies, and the delivery of computing services
through Internet portals.
TDG: Steps in project execution:
 Takes a public function
 Examines its organization, use and relationships within
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national borders and across two countries
Researches the application of selected digital
technolgies to the public function selected, to improve
effectiveness
Builds a research pilot prototype for applying the
technologies to the public function for national and
transnational application
Applies the prototype in a selected area in both
countries and facilitates exchange of information
between them.
Projects the technologies´ suitability for the
modernization of other public functions.
TDG:
The Beneficiaries
 National Drug Councils
 National ministries
 CICAD
 MEM
 Agencies of other OAS Member States
TDG:
Potential Applications Utilizing
Project Technologies
 School surveys
and their
automation
 Treatment Center
patient data
intake
 Data export
 Field data
gathering
 Outreach and
information
dissemination
efforts