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Digital Community Engagement Scale

USA: The Digital Strategy and Making Mobile Gov 2.0

Have a look on

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egov/digital-government/digital-government.html

 

The Digital Government Strategy sets out to accomplish three things:

• Enable the American people and an increasingly mobile workforce to access high-quality digital government information and services anywhere, anytime, on any device.

  Operationalizing an information-centric model, we can architect our systems for interoperability and openness, modernize our content publication model, and deliver better, device-agnostic digital services at a lower cost.

The Rapidly Changing Mobile Landscape

• Mobile broadband subscriptions are expected to grow from nearly 1 billion in 2011 to over 5 billion globally in 2016.

• By 2015, more Americans will access the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs.

• As of March 2012, 46% of American adults were smartphone owners – up from 35% in May 2011.

• In 2011, global smartphone shipments exceeded personal computer shipments for the first time in history.

• Ensure that as the government adjusts to this new digital world, we seize the opportunity to procure and manage devices, applications, and data in smart, secure and affordable ways.

  Learning from the previous transition of moving information and services online, we now have an opportunity to break free from the inefficient, costly, and fragmented practices of the past, build a sound governance structure for digital services, and do mobile “right” from the beginning.

• Unlock the power of government data to spur innovation across our Nation and improve the quality of services for the American people.

  We must enable the public, entrepreneurs, and our own government programs to better leverage the rich wealth of federal data to pour into applications and services by ensuring that data is open and machine-readable by default. 

 

Time Spent on Apps

Read more on http://blog.citizen.apps.gov/howtomobile/2012/05/22/trends-on-tuesday-time-spent-on-apps/

 

Mixed messages around mobile web and apps coming in via comScore mobile data.

Internet Use and Democratic Demands ...

Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01627.x/pdf

Extract

The success of a democracy depends, in part, on public demand for democratic institutions.

How does Internet use shape citizens’ preferences for regime type? Combining individual

public opinion data from Africa and Asia with country-level indices, we test a multilevel

model examining the relationship between Internet penetration, individual Internet use,

and citizen demand for democracy across 28 countries. We find that Internet use, but not

national Internet penetration, is associated with greater citizen commitment to democratic

governance. Furthermore, greater democratization and Internet penetration moderates the

relationship between Internet use and demand for democracy.