Electronic Information Management for Administrative Government

Abstract

This review defines applied informatics and indicates its use in tbe public sector. It distinguishes different sector of public endeavour and different types of information systems with regard to the informational infrastructure in a country. For this purpose recent literature from a number of developed countries is surveyed and abstracted from a variety of different disciplines. The relations between technological and methodological developments on the one hand, and organizational and administrative developments on the other are especially discussed. Some general trends are tentatively discerned. The main conclusion is that the potential use of applied informatics as a tool of administration is insufficiently realized, both in politics and in academic research.