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Editorial: The digital government stuck in the virtual reality

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9 years ago
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The new craze of the majority which won the last elections convincingly is establishing an online platform for co-governing with the people. Used to have a coalition partner, albeit one that poked them on the ribs all the time, now the socialists need the voice of the citizens to make them govern better. And luckily progress in technology makes the premise easier to accomplish and able to be quite inclusive. That is the premise. A new website has been duly opened entitled gloriously ‘The Albania that we want- Platform for co-governance’. The website has a variety of interesting categories in…

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  • Digital governance and the digitalization of many services has many practical benefits for citizens. It reduces corruption, reduces time lost in administration offices, and improves life for both sides. Virtual reality is altogether another matter. Dismantling the institutional, hardcopy if you want, version of procedure, institutions, regulations and replacing them with an uber-online centralized system run according to nontransparent strategies will certainly not help. It shall be at best another cool but non-useful trick and at worst some sort of malignant Big Brother.

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