Change of state: Information, policy and power

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Panorama de definição e implementação da Política Nacional de Informação e Informática em Saúde

“…A política proposta estaria, de fato, legislando sobre um regime informacional e incorporando os elementos de uma política de informação? Vale ressaltar que o termo política de informação, dentro do campo da Ciência da Informação, possui delimitação conceitual 1,2,35,36 .…”

The Prospects for Cyberocracy (Revisited)

“…What's emerging is the networked polity (Ansell, 2000), networked government (Goldsmith and Eggers, 2004), network government (Atkinson, 2003;Kamarck, 2007), the network state (Castells, 1998(Castells, , 2008, the informational state (Braman, 2007), information government (Mayer-Schönberger and Lazer, 2007), or, to use other terms, the virtual state (Fountain, 2006), high-performance government (Klitgaard and Light, 2005), or the next government (Kettl, 2005). Also being created are new kinds of government networks (Slaughter, 2004;Slaughter and Zaring, 2006), public management networks for collaborarchy (Agranoff, 2007), and multisectoral networks (Benner, Reinicke, Lipnack and Stamps (1994), Castells (1996), Podolny andPage (1998), andBorgatti andFoster (2003).…”

Emanations of the informational state: Cyber operations and the difficulties

“…Over the course of the informatization of society, a fourth form of power became evident, not because it was new but because its relative importance had become so much greater as a result of the informatization of society (Braman, 2006). Informational power shapes human behaviors through manipulation of the informational bases of instrumental, structural, and symbolic power.…”

“…Caporaso (1996) clearly and usefully explicates a suite of terms based on deep knowledge of the scholarly literature: if the concept of governance refers to collective problem-solving in the public realm, and that of government to the institutions and the people who occupy key institutional roles, then the concept of the state refers to enduring structures of governance as institutionalized in government. Incorporating Bourdieuian field theory and complex adaptive systems theory into the framework allows us to see that any given political form, with its institutions, roles, practices, laws, and policies, represents but a moment of stability within a much wider, more diffuse, and constantly shifting field of policy and power (Braman, 2006). Specific states and the legal systems that accompanyor emanate from -them derive from and, when transformed, disappear into this broader field.…”

“…It is particularly useful to use dominant form of power as a lens through which to think about cybersecurity as doing so sustains and enriches the focus on the informational structures, processes, and events of such concern in the cyberwar arena. Using a typology of types of states that variously rely upon tools of power in its instrumental, structural, symbolic, and informational forms (Braman, 2006) further discussed below provides a conceptual foundation for addressing the state as it appears in discussions about exercises of power in the cyber domain. When legal experts have a hard time figuring out how cyber operations should be treated under international laws of war, they are engaged in the struggles of the informational state as it strives to understand what it is capable of doing, what it wants to do, what the right thing is to do, and what it is legal to do.…”