Academic researchers attend conferences in order to discuss their ideas and research, and to obtain valuable feedback. Conferences are the places where research communities are built and maintained – through presentations, discussion, and informal social interaction. Strong vibrant conferences are crucial to the quality and longevity of a research field. For this reason, we are delighted that there are a number of active eGovernment conferences research research that help authors to develop their research papers. As Editors-in-chief of Information Polity we are keen to establish positive relationships with key conferences in our field since our journal is another component of the research ecosystem of e-government scholars. Connecting conferences and journals also helps to make the most interesting and thoughtful work available to the broader research community. In that sense, the eGovernment research ecosystem is being strengthened by connections between conferences and journals. Information Polity has a longstanding relationship with two main conferences in our field: (1) the Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o) organized by the Digital Government Society, and (2) the Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA), with Permanent Study Group 1 focussing on eGovernment and Permanent Study Group 15 on Public Administration, Technology and Innovation. Over the years, we have published a number of thematic special issues, sections with linked papers and individual papers from these conferences. We feel that the connection between our journal and these conferences provides mutual benefits and contributes to a strong research community of eGovernment scholars. This issue of Information Polity presents a set of papers from the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o) organized by the Digital Government Society in 2018 in Delft. Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk and Chris Hinnant have kindly agreed to be the editors of this section. The editors of the special introduce this section with a review of open data research. The various papers in this section discuss issues such as open data portals and the right to public sector information. This coherent set helps to provide a strong academic understanding of the state of knowledge regarding open data research. Our connection with conferences certainly does not mean that we are not open to other articles. We will generally not limit issues of Information Polity to papers from a conference and will always provide room for other interesting contributions. This is also the reason why we talk about a section and not about a special issue. In fact, this issue of Information Polity presents highly interesting papers on smart cities and mobile participation. A connection to conferences is productive, but we will certainly not limit this journal to these connections. Also, whilst we have established excellent connections with the
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If curious readers are expecting a catalogue or a guide to movies made in Yugoslavia, a country that disappeared from the political map of Europe in the 1990s, they won’t necessarily find it here. Instead, they will find something more: a reflective journey through some of the most important parts of Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinematic, cultural and political history. Written in engaging prose, the book represents both a homage to the cultural history of a lost country and a critical overview of the political, aesthetic and moral principles embedded in post-Yugoslav film.
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This special issue is a collection of papers from the 18th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2017) that address security, privacy, transparency as well as responsible governance and policy making in open government and open society. The abundance of available data, including open government data, social data, and sensor data, facilitates evidence-based government. This offers the possibility of making information dissemination and government services more accountable and also more innovative and transformative to fit to the needs of citizens and cities, and transitions policy making to potentially become more participatory and collaborative. In this open-data-driven society, where the data is disseminated, re-used and re-purposed, as well as connected and fused, researchers need to investigate the impact of open data and the risks of the “open data society.” What are suitable policies to govern the data dissemination, distribution, reuse and repurposing? What are different types of data governance models, and what are their relative advantages and disadvantages? What new risks and opportunities does an open data society face? What are the enabling factors and risks of the data-driven policy making paradigm? Can citizens be made more aware of and accountable for their own privacy by developing technology-driven detection mechanisms of privacy risks? For this special issue, we feature articles that cover theoretical, practical, and technical approaches to solving issues arising when disseminating, reusing, repurposing and hyper-connecting different sources of big data (including open government data, social data, sensor data, and ubiquitous data) for the purposes of innovation and transformation of government and society.
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This paper suggests a revision of the commonly used model of acceptance of technical tools TAM for analyzing employees' attitudes towards ICT-enabled public sector organizational transformation. TA...
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The current financial crisis has reinforced the need for transparency and accountability in the context of open government. As such, governments have promoted transparency initiatives by developing...
当前的金融危机加强了在开放政府背景下对透明度和问责制的需求。因此,各国政府通过制定……
{"title":"Data disclosure and transparency for accountability","authors":"LourençoRui Pedro","doi":"10.5555/2659342.2659347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/2659342.2659347","url":null,"abstract":"The current financial crisis has reinforced the need for transparency and accountability in the context of open government. As such, governments have promoted transparency initiatives by developing...","PeriodicalId":46265,"journal":{"name":"Information Polity","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71131628","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}