The original ‘Great Emancipator’ was Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States and issuer of the Emanciaption Declaration, that initiated the end of slavery in the USA.
The title has been borrowed to describe what some see as the liberating role of electronic government…
If you like country-rock music, Gillian Welch did a great song about 14 April and some of the other things that happened on that date, including the Titanic hitting the iceberg!
The blogger is Mick Phythian, a Research Associate at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K. and former ICT Manager at Ryedale District Council in North Yorkshire, England. He was also a founder member of the Local CIO Council and regional Chair of Socitm.
Any opinions expressed on this weblog are purely those of the author.
He is not the Great Emancipator! The Great Emancipator was President Abraham Lincoln. The blog is so-called because some people perceive e-government, transformational government or, heaven forbid, government to be the emancipator of us all...
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