Technology-Driven Change and Public Administration: Establishing Essential Normative Principles

Abstract

Technology-driven change is one of the key elements public administrators was fully understand to be effective in the century. The new dynamic, global, technology-driven, capitalist economy is replete with opportunities, but it is also giving rise to many problems that will not be solved by an unfettered marketplace. Governments will be called upon to address those problems. Yet, the relationship of government, and therefore of public administration, with regard to technology is uncertain. This article points out that the most critical aspect of the relationships between public administration and technology are the norms that guide our development and applications of it. Technology is malleable. We must look carefully at ourselves to anticipate its future effects.

Keywords:

• technology application
• public administration
• normative feedback
• communitarian

Notes

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