When the administrative website becomes an electronic newspaper

Currently, people seem to be confusing the administration website with the electronic newspaper. Even, some public Web sites have a team of exploiting information.

According to the roadmap for implementing the State administrative management computerization project in the 2001-2005 period (Project 112), the Government Office is the lead agency, all ministries, branches and local administrations must set up a website to make external communication and publicize its information. However, there is no small problem, it seems that people have mistaken the administrative website with the electronic newspaper.

Is it because of the license to operate?

According to the regulation on electronic information issued in 2002, all websites of all agencies and organizations that want to provide information online must be licensed by the Press Department (Ministry of Culture - Old Information). work. Accordingly, public agencies have set up a website editorial board to make the information available online. However, due to the lack of administrative definitions and mechanisms, it seems that the information updated on these websites lacks a clear orientation.

According to many people, most of these websites are more like an electronic newspaper than a public website, because the information on it is more journalistic, while in fact it must be Official statement of the governing body. Even many websites post advertisements and that's what public websites in many countries never do. And there is also a story that the information center of a ministry is very important and can get a license to publish e-newspapers (!).

Regarding the information content of many websites, if according to the electronic newspaper meaning, the visitors need to know about the specific situation of the locality, but unfortunately, what they see is the national cultural story, like the Film Festival at Dac Lac or Tiger Cup 2004 in Hanoi, but not the cultural or sporting information in that locality itself. Of course, if you need to know such information, surely Internet users do not need to visit these websites, but can read in any other popular electronic or print newspaper.

Meanwhile, what they need is the legal documents, policies, guidelines, specific work schedules of public authorities . sometimes not. It is possible to get concrete evidence on this issue: when it comes to the Ministry of Education and Training's website, it is impossible to find out the Directive on promoting the application and development of the IT sector issued since 2001 .

The public website is the gazette

Around the above mentioned problems, a member of the website editorial board in a northern region admitted this. However, what information can the website editorial board put on it, once the governing body of the governing body does not provide information and does not indicate which information is publicly available and what information only circulated internally. Therefore, there is no other way, websites must retrieve information from other sources. Knowing that this way of working is not reasonable, but must accept, because 'distorted, more than nothing'. Some websites even organize and direct their staff to do news and exploit information like a newspaper newspaper.

Europe is also a difficult thing to do, in the words of insiders, because they can not "compose" their own business processes, but can only follow an administrative and informed process General news. The reality of the information process at websites is also a common reflection of the process of computerization of administrative management, because there is the fact that computerization is difficult to flow once administrative way is not one step ahead.

So in fact, in order for the public website to be effective, how should the process of processing and providing information be done? Obviously, unlike electronic newspapers and commercial websites, the number of visits to the public website may not be much, but all questions need to be answered and fully guided, and there must be speeches. Official website owners around the issues being reflected by the press. And most of all, besides the indispensable public services, the public website must be a reliable address to provide necessary legal documents. Strictly speaking, the public administration website is the official gazette of ministries, branches, local authorities, agencies and organizations. Of course, it cannot be the internal work of informatics experts like the subconscious of the society is taking a long time.

The answer to this problem is the responsibility of the Steering Committee for IT application and development (Steering Committee 58) and the National PAR Steering Committee. Unfortunately, the leader of both entities has no answer to that. This is also a fact that needs to be pointed out and learned for the continued implementation of the e-Government Scheme in the next phase.

Lord Emperor