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This paper explores the question of whether there are any material differences between e-governance and traditional concepts of governance? It proposes a definition of governance that differentiates between structural and normative governance and examines the influence of ICT on two examples of each of these. It argues that while ICT has little effect in some aspects of governance, it has a considerable...
Open Innovation' is a management perspective that suggests to systematically make use of knowledge that lies outside of an organization's boundaries for innovation initiatives. It has been heavily discussed for product innovation, however, an 'open' perspective on business process innovation - here referred to as 'open process innovation' - has not yet been taken. Examining open process innovation...
This paper examines the aspects of e-Government that are important for effective e-Service development within an industrial zone. The purpose of the paper is to develop a research framework for projects where industrialization fosters “informatization” which integrates e-Government and e-Service innovation. Qualitative data were collected through interviews with local business, and government officials...
E-government is the production of network technology during the information age, taking up a significant role in the national informative construction. Laying emphasis on the construction and development of e-government has become an inevitable choice for various countries to enhance government efficiency and to improve government competitiveness. E-government, the construction of which causes huge...
A lot of economic data is operated in the basic statistic department. In this paper, we build a statistic data warehouse based on snowflake schema for the local authority. Using the technology of On-line analysis processing, we extract the integrated statistical information from the economic operating data of the basic statistic department. We integrate the data of statistical indicators to form a...
The structure of urban commerce zone is usually complicated and hard to be governed. Therefore, this paper analyzes every development process of the commerce zone from the view of life cycle evolution, and then determines the governance structure of urban commerce zone from the view of transaction cost of property. Finally the paper makes some relevant proposals.
Information Society can be loosely defined as a society integrated by complex communication networks that rapidly develop and exchange information. Information society is becoming an earthly phenomenon and the goal of every country is to ensure that their people achieve the status of information society. Norway is one of the richest countries in the world. But, is Norway also an information society?...
This paper proposes a Stackelberg differential game model of the higher government's subsidy for the lower government's investment in setting up an effective, perfect E-government system. The higher government, as a Stackelberg leader, controls his subsidy rate for the lower government, and the lower government, as a follower, controls his investment level in E-government system. We give the steady...
We study the targeting of antipoverty program under fiscal decentralization in developing countries. Local governments become more important after fiscal decentralization, so it needs analyzing their incentives and behavior in antipoverty program delivery. In some developing countries, local governments' officials are appointed by central government, but elected by local residents in others. The difference...
Internet has become a major channel for communications between government and citizens. With the Regulation of the People's Republic of China on the Disclosure of Government Information coming into force as of May 1st, 2008, more and more local government in China present financial information at their websites. This paper investigates the determinants of disclosure of financial information of Local...
To promote a healthy and effective development of E-government in China, problems obstacle the E-government development are analyzed from planning, system construction and application level, based on previous construction experience such as overlapping projects, image projects, extensive investment and high failure rate. Corresponding solutions are given at last.
The new contribution of this paper is that we proposed a Spatial Strategic Plan Support System (SSP-SS). This SSP-SS can integrate the planning works conducted by different planning departments into a same platform and hereby support decision-making of local government on urban development from the viewpoint of sustainable development.
The study focused on the evaluation of selected LGUs in Region III as regards their compliance to the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000. The LGUs are composed of provinces, cities and municipalities. These LGUs were evaluated in terms of their compliance to Part IV (Electronic Transactions in Government) of the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000. The study identified the different departments/offices utilizing...
The highly interactive network makes the trend that the network group incidents are moving toward reality gradually, this paper analyses in depth the incentives of network group incidents making tracks for actualization from the network which is based on the re-division of their types and generation models, which include the Government's negative and hysteretic responses, the relative deprivation...
The Chinese local government websites have brought great convenience to people's daily lives and work since the inception of “Government Online”Project. However, the Accessibility of websites has been ignored in this rapid development process. This study tries to find out how accessible they are with by examined almost all the websites of the provincial and municipal government.
In recent times, information technology (IT) has a tremendous influence on how different Indian Government departments operate. Governments around the world are increasingly interested in the potential for delivering government services through internet. Examples of substantial transition to electronic service delivery can be found in some sectors in some countries, however most government services...
Some websites are currently listing huge information overloads, with new and emerging ICT capabilities, and with a shortage of information management skills and human expertise. Additionally, various features of information categories and user services are provided in there. E-Government websites in developing countries are a type of the complex websites mentioned above. However, little work is found...
This paper briefly analyzes the current research on E-government system assessment methods, and suggests that realizing automatic detection is the trend of establishing appraisal index system due to an increasing number of humanized services provided. Based on the performance evaluation of government websites in recent years, the factors that influence the construction level of local government websites...
In this paper we propose a new conceptual model of e-Local Government for the Portuguese municipalities of small population - less than 10,000 residents - supported by wireless technologies. The proposed model allows evaluating the degree of digitization of the interactive process of the municipality and its residents. Thus, a municipality may implement the proposed model of e-government to undertake...
The eDemocracy Toolbox (eDT) is a pilot case implemented in an EU funded integrated project Collaboration@Rural. The initial motivation behind eDT was the national municipal restructuring process in Finland which reduced the number of independent municipalities from the 431 (2006) to 342 (2010), but which increased the size of municipalities and thus the distances to municipal administrative centres...
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