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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering during the India-UK Tech Summit in New Delhi. November 2016. Adnan Abidi/Reuters

March 22, 2017

Narendra Modi, India’s social media star, struggles to get government online

P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi knows how to use social media in politics. But the rest of his government? Not so much.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev (here in 2012) used to his best interest technology in an attempt to shut down any political uprising. Shamil Zhumatov /Reuters

March 21, 2017

Kazakhstan’s government is using social media to tame rebellion

Nurseit Niyazbekov, KIMEP University

Forget old-school state propaganda. Kazakhstan's government has reinvented itself through social media.

Protesters post a hashtag to social media together to make it trend as they denounce policies of President Donald Trump at the Not My President’s Day Rally in Los Angeles, California February 20, 2017. David McNew/Reuters

March 19, 2017

Can social media, loud and inclusive, fix world politics?

Rania Fakhoury, Université Libanaise

Can social media create opportunities to identify and challenge government pitfalls and problematic policies?

August 9, 2016

Back to the bad old days, as civil service infighting threatens UK’s only hope for digital government

Helen Margetts, University of Oxford

The GDS has built the foundations of digital government, but they're being undermined.

The digital economy means people are no longer passive consumers. Image sourced from Shutterstock.com

October 8, 2015

What a ‘digital first’ government would look like

Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology

The digital economy is also an economy of people first, something governments of the future will need to adjust to.

Tallinn might be a medieval town, but it’s governed via 21st century means. TausP./Flickr

October 5, 2015

What Australia can learn about e-government from Estonia

Matthew Sorell, University of Adelaide

Since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Estonia has leapt ahead in the adoption of digital technology. Australia could learn a lot from Estonia in terms of e-government.

Top contributors

Matthew Sorell
Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Adelaide
Helen Margetts
Professor of Society and the Internet and Director, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Michael Rosemann
Professor of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology
Rania Fakhoury
Chercheur associé à LaRIFA, Université Libanaise
Nurseit Niyazbekov
Assistant professor, KIMEP University
P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan
Associate Professor, The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi