Constructing new ways of living together: Government relationships with the voluntary sector in the information polity

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Burt, E.^{a; *} | Taylor, John^b

Affiliations: [a] Department of Management, University of St Andrews, The Scores, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL, Scotland, UK. Tel.: +44 1334 462804; E-mail: [email protected] | [b] Caledonian Business School, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, Scotland, UK. Tel.: +44 141 331 3000; E-mail: [email protected]

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author

Abstract: In this paper we examine how the transformational potential of information and communication technologies and Labour's partnership with the voluntary sector are being brought together in ways that could bring voluntary organisations more intimately within the centre-ground of the democratic polity. Drawing upon the concept of the 'information polity' we map the new patterns of influence that are emerging around the ownership and control of information as this re-positioning occurs.

Keywords: voluntary, information polity, information and communication technologies, government

DOI: 10.3233/IP-2003-0033

Journal: Information Polity, vol. 8, no. 3-4, pp. 181-192, 2003