E-Government in a New Technological Ecosystem

The growing communication needs demanded by a constantly changing society significantly stimulate the current information and communications technology industry. Consequently, we can see an exponential development of ICT which, corroborated in the IoT context with the new paradigms in the field of software development (cloud computing, fog computing, blockchain, etc.), and in the nanotechnology industry draws the boundaries of a new technological ecosystem. As any ecosystem presupposes the existence of a food chain, and in the case of the new technological ecosystem we discover the producers and decomposers. They can be assimilated to technological tools and primary resources on the one hand (IoT, internet, water, air, electricity, etc.), respectively to individuals and communities on the other hand. This is the overall image or background over which aggressive digital solutions are being developed, in various fields, which respond to increasingly specialized, more concrete needs: education, culture, socialization, sports, transport, health, administration, government. In this paper we will present the main aspects of governance in the new technological ecosystem, emphasizing the aspects of e-government and democracy, voting and e-legislation contained in what we generically call e-government.