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Correspondence: Fernando Galindo, Zaragoza, Spain; E‐mail: [email protected].

‘Citizens and governance in a knowledge‐based society’ is significantly the title of the correspondent Thematic Area of the 6th European Framework Programme of Research and Development. Available at http://www.cordis.lu/citizens/home.html.

Manuel Castells discusses these tensions, for example, in M Castells La era de la Información. Econocmía, Sociedad y Cultura Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1999, Vol 1, p 47 (note 33) and 1999, Vol 2, pp 337–338.

Electronic Government is the name of the applications of the instruments of the ‘knowledge‐based society’ in the Government activities. See to this respect: J Morison ‘e‐Government: a new architecture of government and a new challenge for learning and teaching public law’ in F Galindo and R Traunmüller (eds) E‐Government: Legal, Technical and Pedagogical Aspects, Seminario de Informática y Derecho, Zaragoza, 2003, p 326. A technical and political introduction to electronic Government is, for example, in A Grönlund (ed) Electronic Government: Design, Applications and Management Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, 2002. There are legal rules on Electronic Government, this is the case in the USA: ‘E‐Government Act of 2002’ signed by the United States President on 17 December 2002

Ninety institutions or industries currently participate in the initiatives. See, for more information, http://www.lefis.net.

See, for example: http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/03-1/galindo.htm.

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Fernando Galindo

Correspondence: Fernando Galindo, Zaragoza, Spain; E‐mail: [email protected].