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Editorial: Are they now finally listening to us?

Editorial: Are they now finally listening to us? For a number of years, scholars interested in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in government found it difficult to catch the attention of their colleagues in public administration and politics departments. Technology was broadly seen as dull and mechanical, part of the information systems scholarly community, and not as interesting or relevant as popular topics such as agenda-setting, accountability, network collaboration and new public governance. We were tolerated at conferences but it was generally quite difficult to get papers on ICT in government published in key public administration journals.In 2007, Albert Meijer even published an essay in Information Polity with the title ‘Why don’t they listen to us? Reasserting the role of ICT in Public Administration’. The argument was that many important insights have been produced by the community of scholars studying ICTs in the public sector but that these insights were widely ignored by mainstream scholars in public administration. For this reason, several strategies were presented to enhance the impact of our work on academic debates and to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible.If we leap forward 15 years and look at the current academic landscape, we see that this has drastically changed. In the mainstream http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Information Polity IOS Press

Editorial: Are they now finally listening to us?

Information Polity , Volume 27 (3): 2 – Aug 31, 2022
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For a number of years, scholars interested in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in government found it difficult to catch the attention of their colleagues in public administration and politics departments. Technology was broadly seen as dull and mechanical, part of the information systems scholarly community, and not as interesting or relevant as popular topics such as agenda-setting, accountability, network collaboration and new public governance. We were tolerated at conferences but it was generally quite difficult to get papers on ICT in government published in key public administration journals.In 2007, Albert Meijer even published an essay in Information Polity with the title ‘Why don’t they listen to us? Reasserting the role of ICT in Public Administration’. The argument was that many important insights have been produced by the community of scholars studying ICTs in the public sector but that these insights were widely ignored by mainstream scholars in public administration. For this reason, several strategies were presented to enhance the impact of our work on academic debates and to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible.If we leap forward 15 years and look at the current academic landscape, we see that this has drastically changed. In the mainstream

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Published: Aug 31, 2022

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