TRANSNATIONAL DIGITAL GOVERNMENT (TDG):

The Future in the Near-Term

Transnational Digital Government (TDG):

A SCENARIO 1. Two men arrive at a remote border

port of entry. Immigration official queries headquarters. Technologies: Voice recognition / Security privacy technology access to central database.

2. Belize’s central immigration computer grants access to immigration official.Technologies: Voice recognition / security-privacy / information filtering / networking / Internet technologies / machine translation

Transnational Digital Government:

A SCENARIO 3. Belize computer queries the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic finds and transmits files to BelizeTechnologies: Machine translation / network optimization technology / Security – privacy / Internet and middleware technology.

4. Belize’s central computer communicates with the immigration official at the remote border.Technologies: Information filtering / voice communication / automatic commands based on data received.

5. Belize’s central computer alerts the police.Technologies: Voice recognition / network technology / Internet technology

Transnational Digital Government Project

3 years – US$1,500,000 Financed by U.S. National Science

Foundation (NSF) Evolution:

CICAD’s 1999 approval in Montevideo of the construction of a hemispheric-wide drug information network using advanced information technology

NSF desire to solve real world problems through information technology research

TRANSNATIONAL DIGITAL GOVERNMENT

Governments doing business with each other, collaborating, and sharing information using technology -- digitally-based technology

Neighbors sharing information with neighbors -- health officials to health officials; health officials to police; police to police

DIGITAL GOVERNMENT: the way of organizing and

providing for a society’s essential objectives utilizing digital

technology

collective security justice administration health and education economic infrastructure group participation and assent

DIGITAL GOVERNMENT

Carrying out public sector functions using computers and other digital technologies

Integration of information from

multiple locations and the innovative delivery of services through the provision of access over the Web.

Citizen access to government information and services.

The challenge is maintaining the primary focus on government functions and not on the technologies. In implementing digital government it is advisable for agencies/ministries to keep 3 questions in mind:

1. What public functions are we responsible for?

2. How can we responsibly transform our current business models while incorporating new and emerging technologies?

3. Are these new business models reflective of the collective concerns and priorities of the public?

FOCUS: FOCUS:

Theresa A. Pardo, http://www.cisp.org/imp/october_2000/10_00pardo.htm

NSF / CICAD Collaborationfor

Transnational Digital Government

2002 – Project in TRANSNATIONAL DIGITAL

GOVERNMENT

STATUS: IN EXECUTION

TDG Colaborators OAS/CICAD/OID Belize

National Drug Abuse Control Council (NDACC) University of Belize

Dominican Republic Consejo Nacional de Drogas (CND) Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y

Maestra United States

University of Florida University of Massachusetts University of Colorado Carnegie Melon University North Carolina State University

TDG: The function

REMOTE BORDER CONTROL

IMMIGRATION AT POINTS OF ENTRY

SUPPORT FOR MEM “DISPLACEMENT” INDICATOR #83

TDG:Technologies Being Tested

Spoken dialogue systems to collect, access and retrieve information;

Machine translation technology to gather and share data in different languages;

Active data management and security techniques for rule-based secure data sharing and filtering;

Network behavior modeling and optimization to deliver high quality service with no crashes or down time

Middleware for transnational (heterogeneous) information grids that enable private, secure and dependable automation of collaboration processes and policies, and the delivery of computing services through Internet portals.

TDG: Steps in project execution: Takes a public function Examines its organization, use and relationships

within national borders and across two countries Researches the application of selected digital

technolgies to the public function selected, to improve effectiveness

Builds a research pilot prototype for applying the technologies to the public function for national and transnational application

Applies the prototype in a selected area in both countries and facilitates exchange of information between them.

Projects the technologies´ suitability for the modernization of other public functions.

TDG:The Beneficiaries

National Drug Councils National ministries CICAD MEM Agencies of other OAS Member

States

TDG:Potential Applications Utilizing

Project Technologies

School surveys and their automation

Treatment Center patient data intake

Data export

Field data gathering

Outreach and information dissemination efforts