Pub Date : 2009-09-21DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2009.028548
Tuna Baskoy
This study assesses the European Commission's Interactive Policy-Making (IPM) initiative launched in 2001 with respect to its potential to promote democratic participation in the European Union (EU). It is argued that the EU is an example of the consultative, if not participatory model of e-democracy. The first section reviews the existing literature on the implications of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) for democratic participation, followed by a brief history of e-government and e-democracy in the EU in the second section. The third section investigates the IPM project in detail, before evaluating the findings in the last section.
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Pub Date : 2009-09-21DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2009.028544
Vassilios Tzoumis, N. Manouselis, C. Patrikakis
The objective of this paper is the analysis and evaluation of e-Government (e-Gov) Services for Small And Medium Enterprises (SMEs). For this purpose, a survey for e-Gov services in Greece is carried out. The analysis and the classification of a sample of 56 e-Gov services is based on e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS) for SMEs, through the representation of their characteristics according to specific dimensions. Furthermore, the importance and the relevance of e-Gov services for the business operation are examined, while all services are classified according to SMEs' needs. Through this analysis, conclusions about the existence and relevance of Greek e-Gov services for SMEs are made. In addition, future improvements for the evolution of e-Gov services in Greece are proposed.
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Pub Date : 2009-09-21DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2009.028543
Biswatosh Sengupta, M. Bandyopadhyay
E-governance or e-government uses the tools of Information Technology to enhance and speedup government's activities more rationally for the welfare of the people. In this paper an attempt has been made to provide a brief scenario of Indian e-governance/Panchayat (rural government), to identify the gap and requirements for e-government services for rural areas, Information Kiosk for e-governance and to recommend Policy Issues for e-government Services for Rural Areas particularly emphasising the need for Small and Medium Entrepreneurs as alternative for rural economy for sustainable development considering various aspects.
{"title":"Policy issues for e-government services for rural areas","authors":"Biswatosh Sengupta, M. Bandyopadhyay","doi":"10.1504/IJED.2009.028543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJED.2009.028543","url":null,"abstract":"E-governance or e-government uses the tools of Information Technology to enhance and speedup government's activities more rationally for the welfare of the people. In this paper an attempt has been made to provide a brief scenario of Indian e-governance/Panchayat (rural government), to identify the gap and requirements for e-government services for rural areas, Information Kiosk for e-governance and to recommend Policy Issues for e-government Services for Rural Areas particularly emphasising the need for Small and Medium Entrepreneurs as alternative for rural economy for sustainable development considering various aspects.","PeriodicalId":141497,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Democracy","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130265481","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}
Pub Date : 2009-09-21DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2009.028542
Minyi Huang
This paper studies the efforts of developing rural e-government in China to help local farmers, Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to grow and flourish. Three real-life case studies are used to describe the status quo of rural e-government development in China. The merits and limits of each case are assessed in terms of accessibility, usefulness and sustainability. On the basis of the analysis, we suggest the need to improve IT infrastructure in rural areas by having more stakeholder involvements and the need to encourage data and resource sharing among the service providers.
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Pub Date : 2009-09-21DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2009.028547
Suree Funilkul, W. Chutimaskul
This paper addresses the concept of developing an efficient and effective e-democracy system. The concepts of three main e-democracy developments and control framework of COBIT 4.1 are employed for constructing our sustainable e-democracy development, which consists of four external components. Such components are development environment, stakeholder and policy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and development methodology. The underlying e-democracy applications are introduced based on democratic principles and the OECD framework of citizens' participation. Furthermore, the quality of an e-democracy system is established by using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the e-government Web Quality Assessment Model (e-government WebQAM). This sustainable development and quality of an e-democracy system can be used as guidelines for successful e-democracy development.
{"title":"The sustainable development of an e-democracy system","authors":"Suree Funilkul, W. Chutimaskul","doi":"10.1504/IJED.2009.028547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJED.2009.028547","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the concept of developing an efficient and effective e-democracy system. The concepts of three main e-democracy developments and control framework of COBIT 4.1 are employed for constructing our sustainable e-democracy development, which consists of four external components. Such components are development environment, stakeholder and policy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and development methodology. The underlying e-democracy applications are introduced based on democratic principles and the OECD framework of citizens' participation. Furthermore, the quality of an e-democracy system is established by using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the e-government Web Quality Assessment Model (e-government WebQAM). This sustainable development and quality of an e-democracy system can be used as guidelines for successful e-democracy development.","PeriodicalId":141497,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Democracy","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122657615","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}
Pub Date : 2009-09-21DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2009.028545
Konstantinos Markellos, P. Markellou, A. L. Tsakalidi, Marina Staurianoudaki
In this paper, we introduce RecOrgSeed, a model for producing interesting recommendations to organic farmers/growers. The whole process has been distinguished into two stages, one off-line that includes data preparation, ontology creation and usage mining and one online that concerns the recommendations production. The knowledge about farmers/growers (users) and seeds (products) is extracted from usage mining data and semantic annotations in conjunction with user-product ratings and matching techniques between users. The preliminary evaluation experiments show that even in the case of "cold-start problem" where no initial behavioural information is available, the approach can provide users with logical and relevant recommendations.
{"title":"Personalised web services for agricultural domain: a case study for recommending organic seeds to farmers and growers","authors":"Konstantinos Markellos, P. Markellou, A. L. Tsakalidi, Marina Staurianoudaki","doi":"10.1504/IJED.2009.028545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJED.2009.028545","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce RecOrgSeed, a model for producing interesting recommendations to organic farmers/growers. The whole process has been distinguished into two stages, one off-line that includes data preparation, ontology creation and usage mining and one online that concerns the recommendations production. The knowledge about farmers/growers (users) and seeds (products) is extracted from usage mining data and semantic annotations in conjunction with user-product ratings and matching techniques between users. The preliminary evaluation experiments show that even in the case of \"cold-start problem\" where no initial behavioural information is available, the approach can provide users with logical and relevant recommendations.","PeriodicalId":141497,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Democracy","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132076647","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}
Pub Date : 2009-09-21DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2009.028546
F. Corradini, A. Polzonetti, O. Riganelli
Online public services provide small and medium-sized enterprises with new opportunities for adding value to their business activities. Owing to limited resources, authorities in rural areas have serious obstacles to provide suitable online services. This paper proposes a shared services environment to support rural authorities to deliver digital public services. The proposed environment involves suitable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities and expertises and a collaborative architecture for supporting the rural community needs. This results in the needed critical mass to avoid the exclusion of rural authorities from innovation processes because of their difficulties to get proper funds and suitable skills.
{"title":"Shared services for supporting online public service delivery in rural areas","authors":"F. Corradini, A. Polzonetti, O. Riganelli","doi":"10.1504/IJED.2009.028546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJED.2009.028546","url":null,"abstract":"Online public services provide small and medium-sized enterprises with new opportunities for adding value to their business activities. Owing to limited resources, authorities in rural areas have serious obstacles to provide suitable online services. This paper proposes a shared services environment to support rural authorities to deliver digital public services. The proposed environment involves suitable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities and expertises and a collaborative architecture for supporting the rural community needs. This results in the needed critical mass to avoid the exclusion of rural authorities from innovation processes because of their difficulties to get proper funds and suitable skills.","PeriodicalId":141497,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Democracy","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133415272","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}
Pub Date : 2008-11-18DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021277
Yiannis Panagis, E. Sakkopoulos, A. Tsakalidis, Giannis Tzimas, S. Sirmakessis, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras
The World Wide Web solutions are increasingly endorsed by several levels of government in order to deliver all kinds of the so-called e-government services. To face the complexity of joint design and development procedures, it is imperative to adopt a web modelling language such as the WebML. In this work, we propose a methodology that enhances the ability to detect, during the early development stages, similar design snippets that perform the same functionalities. Additionally, a methodology to infer frequent constructs at the design level, when applied to similar e-government services, can lead to safe conclusions as for when a specific construct constitutes a design pattern. Finally, we illustrate a validation scenario.
{"title":"Techniques for mining the design of e-government services to enhance end-user experience","authors":"Yiannis Panagis, E. Sakkopoulos, A. Tsakalidis, Giannis Tzimas, S. Sirmakessis, Miltiadis Demetrios Lytras","doi":"10.1504/IJED.2008.021277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJED.2008.021277","url":null,"abstract":"The World Wide Web solutions are increasingly endorsed by several levels of government in order to deliver all kinds of the so-called e-government services. To face the complexity of joint design and development procedures, it is imperative to adopt a web modelling language such as the WebML. In this work, we propose a methodology that enhances the ability to detect, during the early development stages, similar design snippets that perform the same functionalities. Additionally, a methodology to infer frequent constructs at the design level, when applied to similar e-government services, can lead to safe conclusions as for when a specific construct constitutes a design pattern. Finally, we illustrate a validation scenario.","PeriodicalId":141497,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Democracy","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128747313","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}
Pub Date : 2008-11-18DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021278
Bardo Fraunholz, C. Unnithan
Apathetic citizens disenchanted with conventional channels of participation in democratic processes are a predicament for mature representative democracies, as it reflects in the depleting voter turnouts in elections and participation in community associations. Recognising the reverberations of this apathy on governance, economies ostensibly search for anti apathy approaches. Recently E-governance using the pervasive power of the internet/Web 2.0, during the election has been instrumental for democratic engagement. We considered Australia and France, applying a historiographical view exploring the pre-election scenarios, attempting to evaluate the use of the Internet/Web 2.0 as valid benchmarking anti-apathy approaches of e-governance, to facilitate citizen participation.
{"title":"Anti-apathy approaches in representative democracies: e-governance and web 2.0 – facilitating citizen involvement?","authors":"Bardo Fraunholz, C. Unnithan","doi":"10.1504/IJED.2008.021278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJED.2008.021278","url":null,"abstract":"Apathetic citizens disenchanted with conventional channels of participation in democratic processes are a predicament for mature representative democracies, as it reflects in the depleting voter turnouts in elections and participation in community associations. Recognising the reverberations of this apathy on governance, economies ostensibly search for anti apathy approaches. Recently E-governance using the pervasive power of the internet/Web 2.0, during the election has been instrumental for democratic engagement. We considered Australia and France, applying a historiographical view exploring the pre-election scenarios, attempting to evaluate the use of the Internet/Web 2.0 as valid benchmarking anti-apathy approaches of e-governance, to facilitate citizen participation.","PeriodicalId":141497,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Democracy","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127066665","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}
Pub Date : 2008-11-18DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021275
R. Deller, V. Guilloux
As one of Europe's leaders in modernising government through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), France offers an opportunity to investigate how the use of Open Source software contributes to the process of improving government performance. This paper examines the extent to which the French government accepts Open Source solutions as part of its use of ICT to support e-democracy through government operations. This study bases its investigation on interviews of more than 100 program and ICT officials responsible for running or supporting government programs in France.
{"title":"Open source software movement in the French central and local government: a retrospective and prospective exploratory study","authors":"R. Deller, V. Guilloux","doi":"10.1504/IJED.2008.021275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJED.2008.021275","url":null,"abstract":"As one of Europe's leaders in modernising government through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), France offers an opportunity to investigate how the use of Open Source software contributes to the process of improving government performance. This paper examines the extent to which the French government accepts Open Source solutions as part of its use of ICT to support e-democracy through government operations. This study bases its investigation on interviews of more than 100 program and ICT officials responsible for running or supporting government programs in France.","PeriodicalId":141497,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Democracy","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129914492","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}
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