Pub Date : 2015-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2015.04.001
J. Bertot, Jeffrey W. Seifert, P. Jaeger
{"title":"Securing the homeland in the digital age: Issues and implications for policy and governance","authors":"J. Bertot, Jeffrey W. Seifert, P. Jaeger","doi":"10.1016/j.giq.2015.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2015.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315760,"journal":{"name":"Gov. Inf. Q.","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"118874013","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 : 2015-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2015.01.004
A. V. Loon, D. Toshkov
{"title":"Adopting open source software in public administration: The importance of boundary spanners and political commitment","authors":"A. V. Loon, D. Toshkov","doi":"10.1016/j.giq.2015.01.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2015.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315760,"journal":{"name":"Gov. Inf. Q.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"119580044","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 : 2015-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2015.02.001
Kevin Quigley, Calvin Burns, Kristen Stallard
{"title":"'Cyber Gurus': A rhetorical analysis of the language of cybersecurity specialists and the implications for security policy and critical infrastructure protection","authors":"Kevin Quigley, Calvin Burns, Kristen Stallard","doi":"10.1016/j.giq.2015.02.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2015.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315760,"journal":{"name":"Gov. Inf. Q.","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"118679167","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 : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.10.010
Jean-Patrick Villeneuve
{"title":"Transparency of Transparency: The pro-active disclosure of the rules governing Access to Information as a gauge of organisational cultural transformation. The case of the Swiss transparency regime","authors":"Jean-Patrick Villeneuve","doi":"10.1016/j.giq.2013.10.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2013.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315760,"journal":{"name":"Gov. Inf. Q.","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"119866530","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 : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.05.017
Lei Zheng
{"title":"Social media in Chinese government: Drivers, challenges and capabilities","authors":"Lei Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.giq.2013.05.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2013.05.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315760,"journal":{"name":"Gov. Inf. Q.","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"118956654","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 : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.05.014
M. Z. Sobaci, Naci Karkin
{"title":"The use of twitter by mayors in Turkey: Tweets for better public services?","authors":"M. Z. Sobaci, Naci Karkin","doi":"10.1016/j.giq.2013.05.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2013.05.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315760,"journal":{"name":"Gov. Inf. Q.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"119930825","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}
This paper describes a research effort that aims to develop information infrastructure and tools to facilitate access, compliance and analysis of government regulations. It is well recognized that the complexity, diversity, and volume of government regulations are detrimental to business and hinder public understanding of government. The burden of complying with regulations can fall disproportionately on small businesses since these businesses may not have the expertise or resources to keep track of the regulations and the requirements. The situation can potentially be improved by developing appropriate tools that can help facilitate the regulatory and compliance process. To illustrate, this paper discusses the applications of information technology for selected services related to regulations, such as compliance assistance, comparison of regulation from diverse sources, and e-rulemaking.
{"title":"REGNET: regulatory information management, compliance and analysis","authors":"K. Law, Gloria T. Lau","doi":"10.1145/2463728.2463764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463764","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a research effort that aims to develop information infrastructure and tools to facilitate access, compliance and analysis of government regulations. It is well recognized that the complexity, diversity, and volume of government regulations are detrimental to business and hinder public understanding of government. The burden of complying with regulations can fall disproportionately on small businesses since these businesses may not have the expertise or resources to keep track of the regulations and the requirements. The situation can potentially be improved by developing appropriate tools that can help facilitate the regulatory and compliance process. To illustrate, this paper discusses the applications of information technology for selected services related to regulations, such as compliance assistance, comparison of regulation from diverse sources, and e-rulemaking.","PeriodicalId":315760,"journal":{"name":"Gov. Inf. Q.","volume":"44 8 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":"126069576","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}
Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Ankit Ahuja, S. Gad, S. Neidig, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Naren Ramakrishnan, J. Tedesco
Being able to debate, reflect, form opinions, consider counter evidence and make informed decisions is a foundation of civic life in democratic societies. Government benefits from broad participation in collective decision making in terms of sustainable outcomes (e.g., greater consensus) and quality of life in our cities and communities. These collective decision making capabilities are undermined by a strange combination of diminishing (or extinct) local print media, especially local newspapers, and by its obverse, a plethora of information and communication opportunities that are scattered across numerous disparate and decentralized websites and resources (e.g., webpages, RSS feeds, social network software, email, listservs, podcasts, tweets). To address this problem, a number of news aggregators have emerged that capture local content from dispersed sites. To facilitate civic engagement, these sites also need to support social interaction and information exchange. In this paper we review the state of the art in local news aggregation in the US and their support for social affordances (social trust, networks and interaction) that are essential to civic participation. We present a prototype we have developed for local news aggregation that supports social affordances. We summarize briefly the design strategies and techniques (e.g., algorithms) we used to cluster topics and user generated content derived from existing local sources. The prototype should lead to a replicable model for other US communities.
{"title":"(Hyper) local news aggregation: designing for social affordances","authors":"Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Ankit Ahuja, S. Gad, S. Neidig, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Naren Ramakrishnan, J. Tedesco","doi":"10.1145/2307729.2307736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2307729.2307736","url":null,"abstract":"Being able to debate, reflect, form opinions, consider counter evidence and make informed decisions is a foundation of civic life in democratic societies. Government benefits from broad participation in collective decision making in terms of sustainable outcomes (e.g., greater consensus) and quality of life in our cities and communities. These collective decision making capabilities are undermined by a strange combination of diminishing (or extinct) local print media, especially local newspapers, and by its obverse, a plethora of information and communication opportunities that are scattered across numerous disparate and decentralized websites and resources (e.g., webpages, RSS feeds, social network software, email, listservs, podcasts, tweets). To address this problem, a number of news aggregators have emerged that capture local content from dispersed sites. To facilitate civic engagement, these sites also need to support social interaction and information exchange. In this paper we review the state of the art in local news aggregation in the US and their support for social affordances (social trust, networks and interaction) that are essential to civic participation. We present a prototype we have developed for local news aggregation that supports social affordances. We summarize briefly the design strategies and techniques (e.g., algorithms) we used to cluster topics and user generated content derived from existing local sources. The prototype should lead to a replicable model for other US communities.","PeriodicalId":315760,"journal":{"name":"Gov. Inf. Q.","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130753340","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}