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„LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION: VISUALIZING THE INVISIBLE“
Towards Open Government
Dennis Hilgers I Michael Steinbusch
Public-Management-Hamburg.de
Leipzig: 10.10.2011

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Forces of Public Sector Transformation
Wikinomics
An economic Revolution:
 Open Innovation
 Mass collaboration
 Networked business models (e.g. iTunes)
 Openness, Peering, Sharing, Globally
Social Networking
Web 2.0 Government 2.0 A Social Revolution:
Technology Revolution:  Openness,  Online Collaboration in peers (CBPP)
 Internet is not just websites,  Transparent (Wikipedia, Linux, OSS, etc.)
 Collaborative
its an active platform for  Participatory  Division of Labor
content  Effectiveness and Efficiency
 Active users
 Internet is ubiquitous
Net Generation
A Demographic Revolution
A life with IT: Today's 13-30 year old.
Different consumption/expectation
No passive Readers, Viewers, Voters
Tapscott 2009; Hilgers/Ihl 2010 Public-Management-Hamburg.de

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Public Management Reform 2010: Government 2.0
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Trajectories of Administration Reforms and Controll
1990s:
 Decentralisation
 Competition
Market  Cost-efficiency
Hierarchy
(Contract)  Digital Era (Delegation)
New Public State of Law
Management
1950-1970s:
 Development of a
system of justice
 Bureaucracy
 Planning instruments
 Keynesianism
> 2000:
 Performance Management Open
 Good Governance “Open Government”
 eGovernment Governance
 eDemocracy Obama has made a very clear
 Civic Participation commitment to changing the way
 Public-Private-Cooperation government works with its citizens:
(Memorandum of Freedom of Information Act)
• Government should be transparent.
Network
(trust, knowledge, social and • Government should be participatory
intellectual capital)
• Government should be collaborative
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Open Government
in Germany
Political Agenda
Regierungsprogramm
"Vernetzte und transparente
Verwaltung„
„Umsetzung einer gemeinsamen
Open-Government-Strategie für
offenes Regierungshandeln bis
2013“
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North Rhine Westphalia
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S. 81
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BADEN WÜRTTEMBERG
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As a result of this study, we hope
 for a better understanding of Open
Government in the practice,
 a large collection of "best" and "promising"
practices,
 and also an overview of technologies used for
citizen participation.
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Open Government
The formal discipline and practice of
leveraging the discoveries and expertise
of others as input for the administrative
and political process through formal
and informal relationships*.
*Note: It are the informal relationships that constitute the
"innovativeness" of open government!