How Governments Adapt to a Networked Society
For centuries, government administration was built around the architecture of the industrial nation-state: hierarchical ministries, paper-based bureaucracies, physical office buildings, and geographically bound jurisdictions. State power moved at the speed of mail deliveries, parliamentary sessions, and bureaucratic approvals. In the 21st-century networked society, that traditional administrative machinery faces an existential mismatch. Citizens, capital, information, and…