{"title":"e-Government in Russia: is or seems?","authors":"L. Bershadskaya, A. Chugunov, D. Trutnev","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463747","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic governance has received much interest worldwide and a significant amount of attention and money is being put into making e-governance a reality. Proper assessment of e-governance projects gives us crucial information on the kinds of changes needed in order to make them successful.\u0000 International ratings are extremely important in relation to comparing the achievements of different countries, analysing their experiences and making decisions about further development. On the other hand, a country's ranking position forms or adjusts the world's attitude toward this country.\u0000 This article discusses the possible problem when a high position in such ranking becomes an aim in itself and determines the misdirection of e-Governance development -- in this, the case we have chosen to study is Russia.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131418404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors influencing exchange activities in transnational knowledge networks: the case of the Hajj-MDSS","authors":"Mohammed A. Gharawi, T. Pardo","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463755","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents selected results from a study of technical, information, and knowledge exchange in Transnational Public Sector Knowledge Networks (TPSKNs). The study contributes to the growing base of theory relating to TPSKNs presented by Dawes, Gharawi, and Burke [7]. It explores the TPSKN formed between the United States Center for Disease Control and the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health ahead of the 2009 Hajj, one of the largest mass gathering events in the world. Data collected from semi-structured interviews with key participants and a variety of secondary data that were analyzed with an inductive approach to identify and address the impact of the influential factors on attaining the stated goals of the collaboration. The study extends the current knowledge-base regarding TPSKNs into a new transnational context, and a new policy domain, public health. It expands upon the considered contexts to include technological context, central when exchange centers on implementing a new system or adopting an existing system. The study also expands understanding of the influential factors deriving from knowledge and information; organizational; and national layers of context.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"937 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132381582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of recursive bisection in the mapping of sample New York state electoral districts","authors":"David Molik, M. Sharer","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463844","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the use of open, linked data with the utilization of recursive bisection in the mapping of sample New York State Electoral Districts. The use of data in a novel way provides a solution to complications caused from the creation of electoral districts.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130441390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enterprise systems and government organizational changes: a socio-materiality analysis","authors":"Loni Hagen, Donghee Sinn","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463823","url":null,"abstract":"Advocates of Enterprise Systems argue that such systems promise many advantages to government organizations, such as enhancing performance, transparency, accountability and efficiency. However, the fulfillment of these promises is not easy to establish. The socio-materiality framework provides a useful way to evaluate Enterprise System implementation by investigating technology use in everyday practice over time.\u0000 This study of the usage of the On-Nara system (a Korean government Enterprise System) suggests that particular structures of technology use develop in relation with institutional conditions, and responsibilities of users, as well as associated technologies in use. We argue that an Enterprise System can bring unintended (not necessarily negative) micro-level organizational changes. Further, we found that initially inflexible Enterprise Systems gain flexibility when used in combination with other internet-connected technologies.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133401258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploiting the FLOSS paradigm in collaborative e-learning: application to e-government","authors":"Sara Fernandes, A. Cerone, L. Barbosa","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463825","url":null,"abstract":"Modern societies face high demands for skilled professionals, able to successfully design, deploy and utilize complex Information Technology (IT) --enabled socio-technical systems at ever-increasing levels of reliability and security. Contrary to traditional education practices, the high-level training required to fulfill this demand should rely on the principle that the learners are themselves responsible for their learning process, that they have control over this process, and that the process aims at developing cross-disciplinary and problem-driven competences, not only at acquiring content knowledge. However, such training requires the presence of a highly interactive, problem-oriented environment for technology-supported learning (or e-learning). This poster presents a doctoral research project, which aims at designing, validating and monitoring a collaborative e-learning environment based on the principles of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). In order to validate its outcomes, the project will rely on two real-life professional training programs: in Software Engineering for software managers and in e-Government for public managers. The poster presents the objectives, research methodology and expected results from this project.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130898604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digitisation of electoral rolls: analysis of a multi-agency e-government project in Pakistan","authors":"Hasnain Bokhari, Mustafa Khan","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463761","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile governments are seen as an ancillary extension of e-government practices. The low cost of mobile equipment, its mobility factor and a personalised device may however, herald them as the predominant means of e-government in developing countries. Inclusive participation to mobilise and engage the poorer, excluded and lesser-informed citizens has been the bane of e-government yet, but it may change by including m-government as an emphasis factor in the national e-government plans. This paper considers the case study of the Election Commission of Pakistan, which initiated a SMS-based voter verification system with the central database authority in order to inform over 85 million voters of their electoral registration in March 2012. This unique service is among the first public mobile based initiatives in Pakistan which builds upon an inter-agency collaboration drawing on the success of a digitized and central database.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131290618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revival of farming community with m-agriculture","authors":"Swapna Veldanda","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463838","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is aimed at developing an architecture which drives scalable, replicable and commercially successful Farmer Information Services. It aims at building services that impact farmer's income and productivity by reducing multiple distribution channels. Using 360 degrees of communication systems makes this system a unique system.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114695112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An initial exploration of hyperlinks of African government portal websites","authors":"Abebe Rorissa","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463817","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents preliminary results of an exploratory analysis of hyperlinks from (outlinks) and to (inlinks) government portal Websites of African countries. Analyses of the data revealed the nature of the portal Websites and the countries in terms of their online presence and visibility.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115457006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Government crisis communication on the microblog: a theory framework and the case of Shanghai metro rear-end collision","authors":"X. Liang","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463777","url":null,"abstract":"Crisis brings various damages including a tarnished reputation. To protect and restore its reputation is an important task for a government agency in times of crisis. A microblog, which is attracting more and more public attention, can be used as a platform for the government to communicate with the public in order to manage its reputation in times of crisis. However, there is not enough research done in this area. In this paper, the author develops a general framework for a government agency to conduct crisis communication on the microblog. At the end of the paper, the case of a Shanghai City Metro rear-end collision is introduced to show how the government can use the framework to respond to a crisis.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117255814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying Chinese government microblogs: content and interactions","authors":"Tuo Zheng, Lei Zheng","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463803","url":null,"abstract":"This paper selects ten Chinese government microblogs at different levels, in different regions and different departments for studying their content and interactions. Specifically, it observes and analyzes messages' number, message content, message types, message forms, message sources, directing, language styles, relevant stakeholders, and associated levels, attitude of comments, commenter's types, and government responses. Based on the research findings, the paper provides some policy recommendations for government.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123895119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}