Building Cyberlaw Capacity for e-Governance: Technology Perspectives

The preamble to this paper presents the core of the paper which is a presentation of an abridged conceptual framework for e-Governance, which is informed by the authors’ several years of experience in the concepts, planning and e-Governance initiatives in the developing Commonwealth. This is followed by focus on selected perspectives for making ingress to e-Governance, projected in a unique taxonomy of rising levels of complexity that places varying demands for diverse psycho-technical issues, as individuals begin to work, learn and live in the wired world, including integrity and availability of data, identity and confidentiality, authentication and nonrepudiation, privacy and security. This leads to the theme of the paper by way of introduction of trustworthy computing (twc), defined in the paper as the convergence between computing, the legal and the psycho-technical, within the context of the processes and structures of the deployment of e-Governance systems and related technology systems in a jurisdiction.  This gives provenance to imperatives for the need for a trusted business environment, a legal framework and valid laws of evidence, thus linking technology perspectives to building Cyberlaw capacity for e-Governance in a jurisdiction. http://www.rileyis.com/publications/research_papers/guest/rogers1.pdf