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Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era
Researchers, business people and policy makers have recognized the importance of addressing technological, economic and social impacts in conjunction. For example, the rise and fall of the dot-com hype depended on the strength of the business model, on the technological capabilities avalable to firms and on the readiness of the society and economy, at large, to sustain a new breed of business activity. Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era addresses this challenge by assembling the latest thinking of leading researchers and policy makers in key subject areas of the information society and presents innovative business models, case studies, normative theories and social explanations.
Networked Information Technologies
Software systems that used to be relatively autonomous entities such as e.g. accounting systems, order-entry systems etc. are now interlinked in large networks comprising extensive information infrastructures. What earlier used to be stand-alone proprietary systems are now for the most part replaced by more or less standardized interdependent systems that form large networks of production and use. Organizations have to make decisions about what office suite to purchase? The easiest option is to continuously upgrade the existing office suite to the latest version, but the battle between WordPerfect and Microsoft Word demonstrated that the choice is not obvious. What instant messenger network ...
Knowledge Management in Electronic Government
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP International Working Conference, KMGov 2003, held in Rhodes, Greece in May 2003. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on KM concepts for inter-organization cooperation, requirements for KM systems in government, improving government activity through KM, representing governmental knowledge, innovative technologies to support KM, KM tools for public administration, approaching KM solutions, examples of KM in public administration.
Electronic Government
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E-government in Europe
This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes. Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning e-government in Europe: the degree to which e-government translates into genuine reform of government and public administration the dual role of the EU as both a provider of e-government through its own internal activities and also as a facilitator or aggregator in the way it seeks to engender change and promote its ethos in member states across the EU cyberterrorism and its use both by terrorists and governments to pursue political agendas. Featur...
Encyclopedia of Digital Government
Containing more than 250 articles, this three-volume set provides a broad basis for understanding issues, theories, and applications faced by public administrations and public organizations, as they strive for more effective government through the use of emerging technologies. This publication is an essential reference tool for academic, public, and private libraries.
Electronic Government
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2004, held in Zaragoza, Spain in August/September 2004. The 92 revised papers presented together with an introduction and abstracts of 16 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on e-democracy; interoperability; process management; technical issues; e-voting; services; processes, and general assistance; empowering regions; methods and tools; g2g collaboration, change and risk management; e-governance; ID-management and security; policies and strategies; geographical information systems, legal aspects; teaching and empowering; designing Web services, public information; and regional developments in global context.
Handbook of Global Technology Policy
The Handbook of Global Technology Policy presents and compares nonideological resolutions to environmental pollution and toxic waste, urbanization and transportation, homelessness, health-care policies around the world. It provides an evaluation of industrial interventions and energy sources, explores flow control and corporate growth, privatization and liberalization, health data networks, and electronic innovation and governance. Other topics include pharmaceutical policies, the state of science and technology in Africa, the reemergence of tuberculosis, wind energy technology development and diffusion in Inner Mongolia, and major problems of policy implementation in India
Comparative Public Administration
Public administration scholars and practitioners are increasingly concerned with the need to broaden the field's scope beyond particularistic accounts of administration in given countries. This title brings together seminal readings in comparative, development public administration and contemporary public management scholarship.
Reinventing Government in the Information Age
Will information technology help reinvent government? It might, but only if it is correctly managed. This book provides a new model for management of information age reform, based on international case-studies drawn from the US, UK, mainland Europe, and developing countries. It offers practical guidance and analytical insights and will be of value to practitioners, students, educators and researchers in both public administration and information systems.
