La revanche du territoire

This article shows that in France, Information society related policies are featuring many orientations and leadership changes. At first, they aimed to fill a technology gap. Afterwards, social objectives were put at first and then, policies were pursuing territorial development goals. Lately, Frenc...

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Main Authors: Daniel Latouche, Guillaume Côté
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Netcom Association 2007-03-01
Series:Netcom
Subjects:
ICT
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/netcom/2493
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spelling doaj-b9a8fba878d947e98fda3db218c4d8972020-11-24T22:00:46ZengNetcom AssociationNetcom0987-60142007-03-012118111210.4000/netcom.2493La revanche du territoireDaniel LatoucheGuillaume CôtéThis article shows that in France, Information society related policies are featuring many orientations and leadership changes. At first, they aimed to fill a technology gap. Afterwards, social objectives were put at first and then, policies were pursuing territorial development goals. Lately, French policies were mostly related to e-government implementation. By a neo-institutional approach, we will show that this new policy field represents an opportunity to create structures which do not establish a stable road map. Hence, this article is underlying how and for what reasons local authorities enactment of the Information society occurred and putting in emphasis little evaluation effort of the policies. Consequently, the “society” and its “informatization” came second on the priority lists.http://journals.openedition.org/netcom/2493information societypublic policyterritoryenactmentICTinstitution
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Guillaume Côté
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title La revanche du territoire
title_short La revanche du territoire
title_full La revanche du territoire
title_fullStr La revanche du territoire
title_full_unstemmed La revanche du territoire
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publisher Netcom Association
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issn 0987-6014
publishDate 2007-03-01
description This article shows that in France, Information society related policies are featuring many orientations and leadership changes. At first, they aimed to fill a technology gap. Afterwards, social objectives were put at first and then, policies were pursuing territorial development goals. Lately, French policies were mostly related to e-government implementation. By a neo-institutional approach, we will show that this new policy field represents an opportunity to create structures which do not establish a stable road map. Hence, this article is underlying how and for what reasons local authorities enactment of the Information society occurred and putting in emphasis little evaluation effort of the policies. Consequently, the “society” and its “informatization” came second on the priority lists.
topic information society
public policy
territory
enactment
ICT
institution
url http://journals.openedition.org/netcom/2493
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