The Citoyen of Electronic Government
with
Christoph Engemann
CIS Fellow
Monday December 5, 2005
12:30-1:30 PM
Room 280A
Stanford Law School
Open to All
Lunch Served
Electronic Government is the attempt of a fundamental reform of the means of operation of a nation state. The still largely paper based bureaucracy's of public administrations attempt to move to an IT-Infrastructure akin to the ERM-Systems of the private sector. This will change internal and external relationships of public administrations as well as deeply affect economic and social policies.
In this presentation Christoph Engemann will show his analysis of the implicit ideals of citizenship in Germanys current E-Government programs. He will describe the role of Government issued Smart Cards in E-Government and why they are becoming a central tool in Germanys social policies for welfare-state reform. He will address the underlying change in the mode of allocating collective ressources and show how this leads to a reconfiguration of the role of the Citizen. Finally on a more philosophical level, the presentation will question the principles of the mode of relationship between State and Citizen that arise with these E-Government programs.Christoph Engemann is currently finishing his dissertation titled 'The Citoyen of Electronic Government' at the Graduate School of Social Sciences University of Bremen. His main areas of research are new media and statehood, authentication media, political economy of the Internet and the European unification and its media. He has taught both sociology and media-studies at the University of Bremen and the Bauhaus University Weimar. Recent publications are on E-Government, Free Software and Lifelong Learning. He currently is on the academic jobmarket with a post-doc project on E-Government and the European Welfare State.
Christoph is Doctoral Fellow at the GSSS Bremen, Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society Stanford Law School and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus University Weimar. He is an alumni of the Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Summer School.