{"title":"Access and use of government data by research and advocacy organisations in India: a survey of (potential) open data ecosystem","authors":"Sumandro Chattapadhyay","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691262","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents findings from a recently competed study of the practices of accessing and using government data by selected (non-governmental and non-commercial) research and advocacy organisations in India. The study takes place in the context of the Government of India adopting an open government data policy and launching an open data portal in 2012. Although, most of the organisations interacted with in this study are yet to begin substantial usage of the open data portal, they have a longer history of working with national-scale government data. The study explores the data practices of these organisations so as to evaluate the possibilities and challenges for them to act as 'open data intermediaries' -- that is organisations that mediate access and use of open data by other organisations. The findings of the study provide a cross-sectoral view of the current situation of accessing and using government data in India, and briefly reflect on the future strategies towards a robust open data ecosystem in India.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124933546","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":"Future scenarios of ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling","authors":"D. Majstorovic, M. Wimmer","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691233","url":null,"abstract":"The modern world is facing global challenges while at the same time becoming more and more interconnected, dynamic and complex in nature. Accordingly, appropriate methods and tools for successful open and collaborative public governance and public policy making supported by innovative ICT are increasingly becoming important. Along the demands for the implementation of good governance principles and the adoption of open government, policy officials need concise and reliable information to conduct policy making in an efficient and effective way. Likewise, the engagement of the citizenry as well as of civil society organisations (CSOs) and of representatives of the business and voluntary sectors have become imperative. In an international and inter-disciplinary researcher network called eGovPoliNet, scholars have developed visionary scenarios to envisage how ICT-supported open and public governance and policy making might emerge in the years to come. We used scenario building as a method to get insights into potential alternative futures in a certain area. The scenarios sketched the interactions, environment, technological developments and other relevant aspects of potential futures of ICT-enabled public governance and how policy modelling could be deployed thereby. From initial 19 scenarios formulated, a final set of six scenarios has been consolidated and exposed to a wider group of experts. Next step in this process is to develop a range of grand challenges and research directions in this field.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122358449","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 cybersecurity in an open government","authors":"Pedro Janices, Natalia Aguerre","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691305","url":null,"abstract":"Cybersecurity is a relevant aspect for the maintenance and sustained development of an Open Government. From the different areas of the Argentine Federal Administration, the promotion and interchange of experiences have been fostered to protect information and ensure that the principles of the Open Government be established and developed in an efficient and safe manner.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129278746","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":"Security metrics to evaluate organizational IT security","authors":"T. Pereira, Henrique M. Dinis Santos","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691275","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations have moved their business activity to the Internet and mobile applications, which make them more exposed to unexpected and underestimated security risks. This fact requires organizations to implement adequate security controls as well as the respective monitoring and evaluation on a regular basis. However, these tasks require strong arguments (in monetary terms) to justify the return of investment in the security controls. In this context, it is crucial for organizations to define metrics to assess the efficiency of the implemented controls, to justify the security investments. This paper highlights some reflections regarding the definition of meaningful metrics of security controls, to deliver actionable information for decision makers for managing their organizational assets and ensure their day-to-day operations.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124671476","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":"Consistency detection in e-contract documents","authors":"Nishtha Madaan, P. R. Krishna, K. Karlapalem","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691249","url":null,"abstract":"E-contracts are textual documents describing various details and dependencies in the contract. These dependencies and constraints in an e-contract can be differently stated in different parts of large documents. Determining inconsistencies in an e-contract document is a challenging task. We construct (a) a sentence dependency graph from natural languages sentences, and (b) contract element dependency graph from contract element dependencies existing in the contract document. We present a methodology with the combination of these two graphs that ensures the consistency of the contract. We also present evaluation of our approach on a sample contract document and present visualization for representing the graphs.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129457368","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":"Current lessons and challenges from e-participation experiences in Colombia","authors":"Á. Vásquez-Urriago, J. Escobar","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691306","url":null,"abstract":"E-participation is a powerful tool for the collective construction of current society, as it enables the transformation of democratic processes. This document extracts the main lessons of these processes from the analysis of a few recent representative e-participation experiences in Colombia, contributing to increase the empirical evidence on this issue and showing some aspects to be taken into account by governing bodies and e-government implementers. We conclude that one of the main challenges is being able to collect information and knowledge generated by citizens -- not only from established calls or programs, but from their own initiative and under community generation processes --, and manage and utilize it for the advancement of society.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124236856","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":"Human-centric systems for evaluating the status and monitoring the progress for socio-political processes","authors":"A. Ryjov","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691285","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes main ideas of Information Monitoring Systems and its applications for evaluation of status and monitoring of progress for social, economic, and political processes. Using these systems, we can \"calculate\" how we far from our goal and also \"calculate\" what factors allow us to reach the goal by the most effective way. The paper presents basic elements of Information Monitoring Systems and their characteristic, theoretical basis, and example - a system for monitoring and evaluation of state's nuclear activities which was developed for department of safeguards, International Atomic Energy Agency.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124448717","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":"Political use of twitter: the case of metropolitan mayor candidates in 2014 local elections in Turkey","authors":"Ö. Ikiz, M. Z. Sobaci, Nilay Yavuz, Naci Karkin","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691219","url":null,"abstract":"Twitter, as a free and 140-character microblogging service, is used for many purposes, including political and administrative perspectives. While administrative use is mainly motivated by citizens-administrators interaction, including politically elected, political use is highly visible during election times, not necessarily confined to these times. In this study we focus on a 3-month period twitter use by mayoral candidates in Turkey, particularly at metropolitan cities starting from the first of January till end of the March 30, 2014 when local elections were held. Tweets are categorized as of six types (i.e. information and news sharing, location and activity sharing, personal messages, direct interaction with citizens, better public services, support mobilization) derived from literature. We aim to show, at local scales, how and for which purposes twitter is used at local elections other than that of political campaign. Our results reveal that candidates for metropolitan mayors use twitter for mainly location and activity sharing during elections times as expected. What is unexpected for the study results are tweets sent for better public services as the second most tweeted category.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130777436","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":"Distributed architecture for e-government","authors":"Karina M. Cenci","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691281","url":null,"abstract":"At the present time, information systems affect all aspects of our life, due to the technological advance in communications, in particular, the increase of wireless networks, ad-hoc, mobile devices, that provide access to the information. The implementation of secure and high quality distributed systems and applications is highly required. Such systems can be implemented in a small, medium and large scale. For the scaling of a system or application is required to consider the properties and qualities of the distribution, as well as drawbacks. E-Government is one of the most complex and important sectors for the application of technological development in information systems. An important aspect for the development and efficiency of distributed systems is the design paradigm or architectural style. The selection and development of a framework is an essential part for implementing a system architecture, because the framework allows connection between the concepts of architecture and platform. The plan focuses in the exploration and integration of system architecture, desirable properties and development frameworks for distributed system, especially considering the e-government applications.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131126101","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":"ICT as one of the critical success factors of aging society in ASEAN: role and cooperation of Japan","authors":"Bandaxay Lovanxay","doi":"10.1145/2691195.2691301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2691195.2691301","url":null,"abstract":"The aging of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is happening much faster than other regions. In ASEAN, aging rates in some countries will be similar to or even higher than those experienced by Japan in the past that it will reach a level of super-aging. And Japan is one of the most cooperative to ASEAN providing training programs and technical cooperation on information and communication technology (ICT), health and welfare. Moreover, in Japan ICT has become the main key to be an engine for economic growth and innovation to support aging society. This research focuses on the research of cooperation framework to introduce ICT innovation from Japan which can apply to the aging society of ASEAN. In addition, this research analyzes the role of Japan, and proposes the ICT as one of the critical success factors of aging society in ASEAN.","PeriodicalId":352305,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127409531","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}