Talk:Mobile government

Who originally wrote this article? It's fascinating. Mobile government seems to complete the de-territorialization of the state, going way beyond open borders

Binaryborealis Double-plus fascinating, yes. I'm trying to decide which abbreviation of Mobile Government to use while copy-editing this page -- internal consistency is important. The opening statement uses mGovernment, but the first section uses the term m-government. Thoughts?

Binaryborealis On further inspection, it seems the hyphenated form is only used once, so it's probably accidental.

Binaryborealis 01:24, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC) On further further inspection, this is too large of a job for me. I'll come back to this area later when I'm more familiar with Wikipedia.

The article as written is a marketing pitch for Mobile Government, not an article about Mobile Government. The bulk of the article is not encyclopedic. I'm going to work on it. The work in progress can be found at User:Bubamara/mobile government. And I can't resist this little rant: Quoting from the article in the "Implementing Issues" section: Bubamara 17:39, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * "Protecting privacy and providing security for the data and interactions: Privacy and security are the most significant concerns citizens may have about mGovernment. The general fear is that their mobile phone numbers will be traced, when they enter into transactions or send their opinions and inquiries to the government. The government and related parties must overcome the mistrust, and assure mobile users that people’s privacy is protected and that the information will not be sold to third parties."
 * not "work on technology and legislation to actually protect citizens and address their issues"? No, just run a PR campaign to make them disregard their own legitimate concerns. That is dumb.