document: Enlisting on-line residents : Expanding the boundaries of e-government in a Japanese rural township The purpose of this article is to analyze and learn from an unusual way in which local bureaucrats in a Japanese rural township are using the Internet to serve their constituents by enlisting the support of `` on-line residents . '' Successful e-government requires not only rethinking the potential uses of computer technology , but in adopting new patterns of decision-making , power sharing , and office management that many bureaucrats may not be predisposed to make . The main thesis of this article is that necessity and practicality can play a powerful motivational role in facilitating the incorporation of information technology -LRB- IT -RRB- at the level of local government . This case study of how bureaucrats in Towa-cho , a small , agricultural town in Northeastern Japan , have harnessed the Internet demonstrates clearly the fundamentals of building a successful e-government framework in this rural municipality , similar to many communities in Europe and North America today
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extractive_keyphrases: japanese rural township local bureaucrats internet power sharing office management rural municipality
abstractive_keyphrases: on-line residents e-government decision-making towa-cho