Public Administration in the Information Age: Towards An Informatised Bureaucracy

Year 2005, Issue: 10, 46 - 68, 01.12.2005

Hamza Ateş Sabri Bozali

Abstract

This article deals with the question of how the information and communications technology revolution would affect government and public administration of the near-future. It is argued that development of information revolution would alter the nature of bureaucracy. The traditional - hierarchical public bureaucracy is being replaced by the informatised bureaucracy. Four main indicators of this trend are identified: rise of new elites, IT-led institutional restructuring, changing public and private sector relations through IT-led innovations, and the trend of a move from hierarchies to networks

Keywords

Information Technology, Government, Public Administration, Bureaucracy

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