De staat van informatie

In times of computerization, the functioning and character of both society and government change. Sometimes this is clearly demonstrable, but sometimes it also happens in a more insidious way. The use of ICT offers opportunities for policy areas such as health care, youth policy and immigration policy, but also poses new fundamental questions to the public administration. How to deal with risks and vulnerabilities surrounding the use of new ICT? What does ‘forget’ mean in the age of unlimited storage capacity, or is it ‘once a digital thief, always a digital thief’? How can the government take responsibility for the network of information flows from which the digital government is increasingly built? In The State of Information, authors such as Ybo Buruma, Paul de Hert, Michel van Eeten, Corien Prins and Albert Meijer address these and other questions. The bundle is an important building block for the WRR report iGovernment (2011).