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The Promise and Pitfalls of Algorithmic Governance for Developing Societies
The Promise and Pitfalls of Algorithmic Governance for Developing Societies

Author(s): SEARLE Rick
Subject(s): Public Administration, Politics and society
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: algorithmic governance; block-chain; corruption; democracy; prebendalism; spoils system; technological solutionism.

Summary/Abstract: Many democracies in an early stage of development, such as Nigeria, experience a period of endemic corruption and difficulty providing needed public services. the careful use of algorithms may be of use in healping new democracies transition to a more objective, equitable, and accountable from of governance, through technology shoul not be viwed as a panacea for structural problems or without challenges of its own.

  • Issue Year: 07/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 171-176
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English