LiSS Conference 3: "Electronic Government: legal aspects and application" (original) (raw)
My doctoral thesis discusses the subject of the legislation that governs the full scale implementation of electronic government and the transformation of the public administration’s infrastructure to a more citizen-friendly one. The primary target of the thesis is to present the transfer of European Union’s legislation to Greek national law with a distinctive reference to personal data and the citizens’ right to access government information. In parallel, a comparative analysis of the legislative history that formed the existing statutory and regulatory framework of United States, European Union and Greece is illustrated. The first part of the thesis includes a general introduction to electronic government defining its characteristics, pointing out its prons and cons, and marking the transformation of the public sector’s functions by the introduction of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) and modern business models. The second part refers to the legislation framework of United States related to electronic government adopted since the first Clinton Administration in 1992 and onwards with references to earlier laws, where it is considered as necessary, as well as examples of good and/or bad practices of implementation. Following to the third part, I refer to the most prominent EU legislation adopted by European Commission regarding electronic government and the introduction of ICTs for enabling the optimization of European citizens’ life and economic growth as being envisioned in Information Society layout and materialized via a number of Directives and Action Plans. The last part is being composed by the delineation of the Greek legislative status quo regarding electronic government, and especially how EU legislation has transcribed to Greek legislation and regulation commencing from the White Paper “The Greek Strategy for an Information Society: A Tool for Employment, Development and Quality of Life” in 1995 and reaching the newly institutionalised Law 3979/2011 on Electronic Government along with commentary on whether the Greek legislation has evolved enough to encompass all the needed measures and make the necessary arrangements in order to enable the modernization of public administration and the introduction of Greece into the electronic government era. Finally, there is an evaluation of the legal progress Greece has made so far on the issue of electronic government comparing to the rest of EU Member-States and the United States.
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