Toward a Community-Based E-Development in Canada

Garth Graham and Nagy K. Hanna ()

Chapter Chapter 4 in Seeking Transformation Through Information Technology, 2011, pp 139-188 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Canada’s experience tells a story of e-development that started with great promise and a national vision of “Connected Canada,” then got stuck in the snow. Canada became a highly connected nation early in the twenty-first century, thanks to citizens’ enthusiastic experimentation with the Internet use, coupled with federally led initiatives to secure universal access and government online services. Since, Canada’s ranking as information society has declined. This chapter explores the reasons for this decline. E-leadership capacity was not institutionalized. E-development was undermined by changes in the political leadership and an ideological commitment to reduce the role of government. Vested interests from primary telecom carriers, among others, took full advantage of the leadership vacuum to obstruct the structural reforms necessary for Canada’s further transition to an information economy. Canada neglected to build on its earlier achievements and to learn from its earlier experiments.

Keywords: Internet Protocol; Socioeconomic Development; Telecommunication Industry; Minority Government; Technological Determinism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0353-1_4

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