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Over the past 20 years many governments have promised (often repeatedly and at great length) to use technology to modernize public services. Yet most have also struggled to make long-term improvements on anything like the scale of reinvention and innovation seen in the best of the private sector.
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© 2014 Alan W. Brown, Jerry Fishenden, Mark Thompson
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Brown, A., Fishenden, J., Thompson, M. (2014). An International Problem. In: Digitizing Government. Business in the Digital Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443649_2
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