In the public administration

Public administration

Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....

 debate

Debate

Debate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion...

 about New Public Management

New Public Management

New public management is a management philosophy used by governments since the 1980s to modernise the public sector. New public management is a broad and very complex term used to describe the wave of public sector reforms throughout the world since the 1980s...

 (NPM), the concept of digital era governance (or DEG) is claimed by Patrick Dunleavy

Patrick Dunleavy

Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the Government Department of the London School of Economics and the director of the Master of Public Administration Programme Patrick Dunleavy (b. 1952) is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the...

, Helen Margetts and their co-authors as replacing NPM since around 2000-05. DEG has three key elements: reintegration (bringing issues back into government control, like US airport security after 9/11); needs-based holism (reorganizing government around distinct client groups); and digitization

Digitizing

Digitizing or digitization is the representation of an object, image, sound, document or a signal by a discrete set of its points or samples. The result is called digital representation or, more specifically, a digital image, for the object, and digital form, for the signal...

(fully exploiting the potential of digital storage and Internet communications to transform governance).