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Making the teleological structure of e-government explicit can contribute to reduce its complexity. E-government can be viewed from distinct standpoints – from authorities and citizens, but also from conception and construction. This view of administrative and legal informatics requires paradigmatic changes in the effective development of e-government. We have an impression that a currently dominant normative thinking is not enough to solve specific problems of e-government. Here a new concept of legal teleology is required. We propose to supplement norms and even structural parts of a whole legal system with teleological relations. This will form a separate structural layer of legal knowledge representation. Such a layer can contribute to metadata of legal documents. This is important in the search of legal documents and information retrieval. Proposed notation A te B contains three elements: a basic element A, a target element B and a teleological relation te.
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Čyras, V., Lachmayer, F. (2008). Transparent Complexity by Goals. In: Wimmer, M.A., Scholl, H.J., Ferro, E. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85204-9_22
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