As cyber activities increases, the threats related to cyber activities also growing. The consequence of those threat or attack is sometime small and some time big enough to bring down business or organizational activities. Even thought main objective of e-Government is to serve citizen, businesses and to provide transparent and open government rather than earning profits, the vulnerability to threat and attack is no more different from those of e-commerce or e-business. As e-participation and civic engagement in e-Government activities is increasing. The risk toward public privacy and database and infrastructure security of e-Government is also increasing. Hence there are risks and threats in both sides and the current cyber law couldn’t address all these issues. Since different countries have different ways of implementing e-Government projects and they has devised their own framework for implementation base on their culture, information resources, politics and law, but when it comes to cyberspace they all have same global issues which can be addressed only by creating International or Global Cyber Law because once when the e-Government is deployed it is visible around the world and cannot restrict on the particular geographical boundary. Global Cyber Law will not only make sure that the public or government information asset and infrastructure be protected but also help address the cyber related crime globally. As we have read or heard the issue about wiki leaks and disclose of US diplomatic cable gives every nation an attention how to protect the vital information internally and externally. As it seen that the threat is emerged from outside world, the inside world is also equally responsible for creating cyber attacks and cyber crime. To better protect from vital information discloser to outside world, better cyber security and law is essential and e-Government implementer should recognize those potential consequences which creating and implementing e-Government services. Government should also recognize public privacy and respect public opinions and freedom of speech. The e-Government initiatives will only be successful when the citizens feel free to participate in e-Government activities and enhance the democracy norms and value by actively participating in e-democracy without worrying the government will sneaks and use their personal information or government surveillance.
As we know that every country has its own constitution and statues to protect their citizen’s right and freedom of speech, the e-Government initiatives in those countries should also reflect those constitution and statues and should create transparent, accountable, efficient and open government by engaging civic participation using current web 2.0 based technologies.
As we already discussed that Gov 2.0 presents exciting opportunities to reach out public and citizens, it has also potential to erode public privacy in the ways that undermine the participatory goals of open government. As companies and non-profit organizations have already adopted on-way mirror policies, the government can also use a one-way mirror policy to ameliorate the problem and facilitate democratic discourse without engendering privacy risk.
Further the risk from public and anonymous group can also be lowered by establishing better cyber security infrastructure, law and awareness. Adopting new innovative technologies like cloud computing will not only lower the infrastructure cost of e-Government projects, but also provide secure and scalable infrastructure for successful e-Government initiatives.
