How could mashups serve international governance? Would mashups serve to make government more effective?

According to Wiki, a mashup is a web page or application that uses or combines data or functionality from two or many more external sources to create a new service. Mashup web page is a useful and effective infrastructure for government and citizens which are usually provided by third party sites. They would usually contain different sources together that normally a site would not provide. It is considered convenient to use because the users can absorb diversified information off these different sources from a single website.

Mashups could serve the government with more effectiveness due to the ease of usage of the application that enhances the information gathering and information providing by the government to the citizens. It could also serve as an effective tool for the NGOs where NGOs could apply it on executing their tasks and projects across countries. I think mashups plays an important role in international governance since it retrieves information easily and make things easier. In addition, Mashups allow the government to obtain information through e-governance. E-governance could help the government connect with the citizens. For example, the president Obama video we saw in class showed how president Obama interact with the people and how people can acquire useful information or file complains by the White House website.
Overall, mashups makes government more effective. It makes the society more civilized and therefore, this will however benefit both government and the citizens.

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