International law-making is a broad and ongoing process of co-operation and communication between and among states and international organisations. In that sense, treaties and other international agreements written between sovereign states or between states and international organizations, and custom that evidenced general practice of states produce international law which becomes binding upon all states and international organizations.1 Hence, international lawmaking is a process that concerns both customary international law and treaty making. The recent changes in state practice by using remote warfare methods with increased public knowledge of covert operations have made it necessary to reconceive the concept of publicity in international law-making. Publicity in International Law-making: Covert Operations and the Use of Force by Marie Aronsson-Storrier tackles the publicity for state practice to answer a wide range of questions about the ways in which covert and quasi-covert acts of states influence the development of customary international law. Noteworthy is that while the book’s title refers to lawmaking in general, including thus law-making by means of treaties, the author engages in a stimulating discussion of the role of publicity in the development of ‘customary international law’. The reader might expect more accurate title, which simply identifies the work and its central argument. Aronsson-Storrier has addressed these questions as part of her PhD research. The book is an insightful study in which the author elaborately discusses that states’ publicly known and acknowledged operations are the essential dual requirements for identifying the relevant practice by states as a conduct that will require other states to react.2 The book’s central concern is to reconceive international law-making on the strength of increased reporting and legal debate around covert and quasi-covert use of force. The book is divided into four substantive chapters, followed by concluding remarks. Chapter 2 sets out the conceptual framework and development of the law on the use of force that will inform the rest of the book, giving special prominence to the role of publicity requirement in making international law. Having discussed ‘the prohibition of the use of force’ under Article 2(4) and ‘right to use force’ under Article 51 of the UN Charter, Aronsson-Storrier highlights the challenges that arises from ambiguous nature of these rules and the absence of a certain definition of the ‘force’ and ‘armed attack’. She rightly argues that unacknowledged targeted killings and covert
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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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{"title":"Open government process and government transparency in crisis communication: The case of AirAsia QZ8501 crash","authors":"C. Reddick, A. Chatfield, Uuf Brajawidagda","doi":"10.3233/IP-160392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-160392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46265,"journal":{"name":"Information Polity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/IP-160392","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69960000","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 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...
{"title":"ICT-enabled public sector organisational transformation","authors":"MeierRené, BenEsther Ruiz, SchuppanTino","doi":"10.5555/2659350.2659354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/2659350.2659354","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":46265,"journal":{"name":"Information Polity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71131800","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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