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This PhD aims to contribute to the body of knowledge on online participation, addressing in particular the online behaviors known as lurking. Lurking is probably the most common online behavior, so it is important to understand what lurking is, how it is defined, its value and impact. A literature review shows the many definitions of lurking, and that the definition chosen impacts how online research...
Traditional electronic voting systems are designed with national elections in mind. However, there are other types of institutions, such as Universities, that are required by law to conduct mid- to large-scale elections. The nature of these institutions and the different regulations that govern their election process made impractical the use of traditional voting systems for their elections. This...
As a part of a project exploring ways to define transition to Territorial AgroEcological System (tTAES), researchers and rural stakeholders (policymakers and farmers) organized territorial participatory design (TPD) workshops. Such TPD workshops are especially challenging since actors projecting their activity into the future confront many viewpoints or controversial dimensions (farming systems, natural...
This conceptual paper looks at the online behavior known as lurking, the value of lurking and how it contributes to e-participation and innovation in public administrations. Online lurking is often defined using negative terms, but it is argued in this paper that positive definitions may be more appropriate and using Takahashi's definition of “active lurkers” can show how online participation that...
The embedded markup by using formats such as RDFa, Microdata, Microformats, and JSON-LD has become a valuable alternative to describe structured data content on the Web. These annotations are used primarily to improve search on the Web by adding semantic to the web content. Recent publications have exposed statistics data extracted from the analysis of web corpora, about the deployment of these markup...
Electronic invoicing is a control mechanism that provides validity in terms of legal as well as tax issues. Unfortunately, due to the mandatory use of this mechanism, a technological barrier for Small and Medium Enterprises appeared, which need to be solved. This study aims to develop a private e-invoicing solution provided under the Software as a Service business model. Such solution may enable the...
The challenge of modernizing the state and its administration has increased, especially with regard to the application of information and communication technologies. An information- and knowledge-based society creates its value by gathering, processing, evaluating, and sharing digital products and services. However, it must be avoided that any citizens are left behind in the process of introducing...
In this paper, we propose learning analytic tasks to understand the learning process in a smart classroom. Learning analytics can extract knowledge from a course to better understand students and their learning processes. The learning analytic tasks must evaluate different aspects in the course: the teaching and learning process, the student performance, and the pedagogical practices, among other...
Each year, natural disasters cause severe damage to infrastructure and lead to significant losses of human lives. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and activists use social media networks to disseminate and organize relief efforts, but are often unable to efficiently gather volunteers and resources. Harnessing the power of crowdsourced social media services (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Google+), we...
Smart Objects are computationally enhanced versions of everyday objects such as shoes, coffee makers, pens, and more. They have the capacity to process information, sense and act on their environment and interconnect with each other and the Internet, creating an Internet of Things (IoT). IoT and Smart Objects technologies have been adopted in industries such as transportation and healthcare, however...
This work visualizes a state - of - the - art study of researches in the biometry specially in signature recognition, to show the potential of collaborative tools such as crowdsourcing and a tool for human - assisted schemes to improve automatic signature recognition systems. We present an analysis of experiments of evaluation of signatures made through crowdsourcing and labeling of attributes inspired...
The aim of this paper is to present a heuristic study about the level of usability of 24 universities Web portals using data mining techniques. For experimenting in this work, we used a System for Evaluation of Usability of Web sites (SIRIUS) which contains a tool to generate usability valuations of Web sites called Prometheus and integrates 10 heuristics to do the process. The assessments collected...
This paper presents the results of a study performed at the University of Extremadura (Spain) to evaluate the services that are distributed through Spain's Local Administration websites. These Web portals act as front offices through which to establish channels that can be used to interact with citizens and firms. The study is part of an analysis of a sample of 30 town councils in Spain who were asked...
“Cloud for Europe” represents a major European Cloud research project for the public sector. The first two years of the project were characterized by resolving fundamental questions of Cloud computing in the public sector (legal requirements, adoption) and the preparation of the Pre-Commercial Procurement procedure, whose fulfilment is the main goal of the project. Formal aspects of that procedure...
Health planning via intelligent system developments is used to strengthen health care access, focusing on rural areas and underserved populations. In this paper, the authors identify, through a geospatial collective intelligence approach, suitable areas for the allocation of equipment, supplies, and services of health-screening tests for pregnant women in the city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, with the...
The Estonian e-Residency programme has demonstrated in the last two years to be an innovative digital solution for entrepreneurs and digital nomads. By using a method of SWOT, the Estonian governmental start-up is analysed in this paper in order to understand its possible future development. Under an Actor-Network perspective, we evaluate the relation of multiple actors to the strengths, opportunities,...
Twitter has become an effective communication platform during crisis management. Volunteers coordinate humanitarian relief initiatives that spread effectively through this platform, producing real-time data useful for the civil society. In some cases, this works faster than regular government protocols. If over time volunteers gain popularity and credibility, they become emerging leaders. This study...
The growing interest of our society for health issues and physical activities is reflected on social media services where people share information about their daily activities and accomplishments. Fitness activities has become a routine present in many people's daily activities. Previous studies have analyzed people commitment to enhance their lifestyle and reach health objectives using data published...
The aim of our research is to study how to increase Public Value through the collective participation, involving Public Administrations, stakeholders and citizens together. The Public Value for citizens is in the available and gained Knowledge. The paper models this concept by introducing a variant of the classic Data-Information-Knowledge pyramid, considering everything published as open and public...
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