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Solving Legal Issues In Electronic Government: Jurisdiction, Regulation, Governance, John D. Gregory
Solving Legal Issues In Electronic Government: Jurisdiction, Regulation, Governance, John D. Gregory
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
This paper looks at who can be governed, what can be governed, and how it can be governed in an electronic world. Whether law aims to be enabling (i.e., confirming the ground rules and the legal effectiveness of general conduct) or normative (i.e., imposing standards of conduct on more or less willing subjects), the new media presents difficulties for its rational evolution.
These are distinct questions from those raised by government online. Electronic service delivery issues tend to focus on how government can carry on its traditional programs using electronic means and how the law can support it in doing …
Solving Legal Issues In Electronic Government: Authority And Authentication, John D. Gregory
Solving Legal Issues In Electronic Government: Authority And Authentication, John D. Gregory
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
This article is an overview of some of the legal themes and issues faced by governments in the electronic age, with particular regard to their own operations: electronic service delivery and the administration of government itself.
Electronic government is the performance of any function of government using electronic records and electronic communications. It may involve, in the language of the Uniform Electronic Commerce Act, ‘‘us[ing] electronic means to create, collect, receive, store, transfer, distribute, publish or otherwise deal with documents or information.’’ The term thus covers the provision of governmental services to the public, including commu- nication from the public …