R. Matheus, Manuella Maia Ribeiro, José Carlos Vaz, C. Souza
{"title":"Anti-corruption online monitoring systems in Brazil","authors":"R. Matheus, Manuella Maia Ribeiro, José Carlos Vaz, C. Souza","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463809","url":null,"abstract":"Since the development of electronic government, the main area using information and communication technologies in governments were financial control and tax payment. However, recently, this scenario has been changing and new forms of ICT have been used. One of this new form is the anti-corruption online monitoring systems. It is a new channel where all of information about governments is published on transparency portals and there is a complex system to receive inquires and charges, kind of ombudsman through the Internet. It was conducted an exploratory study of sub-national initiatives from Court of Accounts to find initiatives and a structured review of websites. The States Courts of Accounts are the entity responsible to control State Governments in Brazil. The final considerations reveals what are the limits and challenges of anti-corruption online monitoring systems have in terms of technological use, as web 2.0, social networks and others innovations perceived on the international literature review.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"23 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":"123757092","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":"Technological assessment of e-government web presence in Nigeria","authors":"Michael Awoleye, Blessing Ojuloge, W. Siyanbola","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463774","url":null,"abstract":"Government bringing innovation into its activities is a good gesture but innovation that constitutes peril due to inadequate technical capability necessitates re-assessment, hence this investigation. This study investigated susceptibility of some chosen government websites to infiltration due to flaws in the design of their websites. Sixty four websites of some organizations were randomly selected using an advanced feature of google to sieve organization's websites that have adopted the use of country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) i.e. the \".gov.ng\". The research was based on some major measuring parameters which are: Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Structured Query Language injection (SQLi), Cookie manipulation (CM), unencrypted password (UP) and broken links (BL). The sixty four (64) government websites chosen span 8 categories of sectors with a view to evaluating their immunity against cyber attacks. It was found that 27 (42.2%) of the websites are vulnerable to XSS, while 20 (31.3%) to SQLi. Also, 24 websites which represents 37.5% of the websites examined are having the password inputted by the user unencrypted while a high percentage (70.3) have informational issues, like broken links which in itself may not constitute high vulnerability but could create susceptible platform which could permit infiltration. Thereafter, some appropriate policy directions which provide technical advice as to protect government resources available through the Internet were advanced. This tends to also increase citizens' confidence on the adoption of the government web-presence initiative.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"51 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":"125277118","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":"Implementation of integrated tax system COTS product","authors":"Uyanga Sambuu, Zolbayar Chuluunbat, Esbold Unurkhaan","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463828","url":null,"abstract":"This paper tries to address a number of issues, problems and challenges currently facing while implementing ITS COTS solution in the Mongolian Tax Administration (MTA). The paper describes the gap between expectation of MTA towards positive impact of improved Tax Information system through COTS product and the real situation of the implementation of the product as well as serious risks confronting the new Tax Information System that is currently under replacement.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"2 1 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":"125340916","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}
Natalie Greene Taylor, P. Jaeger, Ursula Gorham, J. Bertot, R. Lincoln, Elizabeth Larson
{"title":"The circular continuum of agencies, libraries, and users: a model of e-government in practice","authors":"Natalie Greene Taylor, P. Jaeger, Ursula Gorham, J. Bertot, R. Lincoln, Elizabeth Larson","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463750","url":null,"abstract":"When e-government first became a viable solution to the dissemination of government information, experts believed that the rise of direct government-to-citizen (G2C) services would improve government transparency and foster civic engagement. It soon became clear, however, that not all users were not getting the type of information or instruction that they needed from this arrangement, and that there was a need for an intermediary in this continuum of services. Increasingly, libraries fulfill this role. Instead of direct government-to-user interaction, information channels flow from agency to librarian to user, from user back up to agency, and from agency to user to librarian. This paper expands on the idea of these multiple pathways of information through research conducted in collaboration with libraries, government agencies, state library agencies, and a national library association in the United States with aims to create an e-government web resource to assist librarians engaging in e-government services. The different pathways of information both informed the creation of the web resource and offered a practical model of e-government, important for other projects dealing with similar information.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"7 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":"125348984","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":"Information sharing and financial market regulation: understanding the capability gap","authors":"D. Sayogo, T. Pardo, P. Bloniarz","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463756","url":null,"abstract":"In testimony on April of 2012 before the House Financial Services Committee, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman, Mary Schapiro, stated that effective information sharing between financial market actors and their regulatory bodies is critical to fulfilling the regulatory obligations of the SEC. The 2008 financial crisis is recognized as a show case for the risks to the stability of the markets that ineffective information sharing among supervisory authorities represents. This paper constitutes a preliminary exploration of the challenges facing financial regulators building on prior research in the computing and information science community (CIS). Current literature as well as data from a recent study of financial market regulation is used to identify key actors in financial market regulation information sharing relationships and to begin to outline the challenges faced in this unique context and the resulting risk if those challenges go unaddressed. A recently developed theoretical framework for cross-boundary information sharing (Garcia et al 2007) is used to present insights about challenges and risks from the literature and the field.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"112 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":"115573055","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":"Public CIO, figurehead or decision-maker?: the case of Germany","authors":"N. Proske, Moreen Heine, N. Gronau","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463793","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze the position of CIO in the German states. In Germany, public CIOs range from figureheads to real decision-makers. We identified three CIO types: first, the Political CIO, who has substantial resources but less IT competencies; second, the Operational CIO, who manages IT primarily close to actual projects; third, the Decorative CIO, who serves predominantly for public image. Thus, the institution of CIO moves between catchphrase and e-government enabler.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"1 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":"116442004","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 importance of electronic accessibility in Brazilian juridical electronic process","authors":"A. Ferreira, D. Melo, L. Freitas","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463842","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims at proposing the implementation of accessibility requirements in the pilot project of electronic process in the Brazilian Labor Judiciary Branch through analysis and research of disabled Brazilians' reality, regarding the access to electronic means and mobile devices, observing, above all, international and domestic access standards. In addition to studying the reality of persons with disabilities, this paper aims at drawing some guidelines for implementation of this electronic accessibility requirements in the process of the Brazilian Labor Judiciary Branch.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"79 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":"122644882","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":"Crowdsourcing as data sharing: a regional web-based real estate development database","authors":"R. Goodspeed, C. Spanring, Timothy W. Reardon","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463819","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a web-based database of residential and commercial real estate development projects, created by a regional urban planning agency in Metropolitan Boston. In Phase I, now complete, the tool is used to facilitate inter-agency information sharing, demonstrating the ability of web-base data collection tools to increase information sharing between government agencies by reducing transaction costs. Phase II, now under development, will expand the functionality of the website to allow the general public to contribute information to the database, as well as view and download its contents. The project is unusual in its integration of a crowdsourcing paradigm with traditional methods of spatial information sharing. The project demonstrates the potential for technology to facilitate data sharing in favorable contexts where interorganizational relationships and sharing norms exist.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"87 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":"117295333","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":"Electronic participation system: the Nigerian perspective","authors":"I. Aliyu","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463822","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of e-Governance has transformed the way Governments carry out their businesses using Information & Communication Technology (ICT). The application of e-governance can be characterized in three major areas, namely Communication, citizen participation, and monitoring and evaluation of government projects.\u0000 This paper, titled 'Electronic Participation System: The Nigerian Perspective' will show case an innovation being introduced to project monitoring and citizenry inclusion at Federal Government level. This will bring transparency, effective reporting by supervising Ministries, enhanced communication, citizen participation and project monitoring, and ultimately good governance and elimination of corruption.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"39 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":"124670100","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":"Computer supported contractor selection for public administration ventures","authors":"Z. Paszkiewicz, W. Cellary","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463791","url":null,"abstract":"Ventures undertaken by public administration significantly contribute to development of economy. Such ventures are usually complex, so they require effective collaboration of a number of autonomous organizations. To face the challenge of efficient cooperation, public administration should adopt the model of Virtual Organizations (VO). A key phase in each VO life-cycle is selection of partners which in case of public administration takes a form of public auctions. In this paper a Collaborative Contractor Selection method, denoted C-CS, is proposed to support selection of contractors for a portfolio of public ventures. In the C-CS method a number of requirements are considered associated with contractor offer properties, contractor competences, and social relationships among them. The selection is performed step by step as successive ventures are performed. If justified, the selection is done in collaboration between administrative units and potential contractors. The C-CS method provides an opportunity for better computer support of public auctions leading to more efficient and effective realization of public administration ventures.","PeriodicalId":135802,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"38 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":"124780464","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}