Journal of Administrative Sciences and Policy Studies

Would E-Government Promote e-Governance? A Proposed Restructure to Promote Democracy and Participation of Public in the Decision Making Processes for Environmental Policies
Ghazzawi Khalil

Abstract
The "Tragedy of the commons" is a real phenomenon that is currently observed worldwide. It is the dilemma and conflict between ones self interest and the rest of the public interest in managing and sustaining our natural resources, despite that each individual might be acting rationally, the result may be devastating and leads to the depletion of our precious natural resources. Thus public consensus concerning the proper and adequate use and management of resources are of utmost important to ensure the sustainability of our resources and environment. The county's/regional's political procedures and structures of how to reflect the majority of public opinion is some time unable to reflect the true concerns/opinions. As such, the need to search for a mechanism that can allow the true participation in the decision making process is a must. Our world is currently witnessing major detours in the areas of developing, implementing and managing styles of public organizations. EGovernment must be able to offer a shared processor and transparency toward citizens. This paper will provide a suggestion of a new behavior for the e-Governing by the administration to promote e-Governance ‘the continuous optimization of service delivery constituency participation by transforming internal and external relationships through technology and internet’, based on the combination of the e-Democracy and e- Government. Moreover, modernization’s efforts starting with decentralization seeking the use of new information and communication technologies, should take a significant role in the governmental action plans. Finally, it is believed that applying such concepts and procedures to publically debatable issues such as environmental issues and policies may pave the roads towards a more successful application in other areas, specially other political process.

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