미국에서의 정보화 정책의 변화 추이와 추진체계 특징: 전자정부 프로그램을 중심으로

Abstract

This research aims at exploring changes and features of U.S. information policies in order for understanding information implementation system and rules of management. This research, in particular, focuses U.S. e-government projects and explores National Information Infrastructure projects and public services , government capability enhancement derived from the NII projects. With the respect of the U.S. information implementation system, it is pursues the principle of checks and balances. It's policy seems to apply distributive system for independent information implementation and checking system through coordination among different government offices. OMB and COO, for instance, can be regarded as important coordination units which is under controlled by presidential leadership. Moreover, it tends to bring effective interaction among different government offices. As result, the U.S. information policy is likely to construct distributive information implementation system. Thus, this means that the U.S. information implementation system has been constructed to apply its own social management rules, and the information policies are reconstructed in accordance with social rules. Civil society's involvement also can be regarded as one of the distinctive features of the U.S. information implementation system, social coordination has mainly accepted through the information policies. In sum, the U.S. information policies have been structured by it's government structure and management rules, political environments. The U.S. can be approached as one of the cases which explain social-construction perspective to understand how the information policies lead the previous government structure.