Yannis Charalabidis Livres

The use of information and communication technologies to support public administrations and decision makers, known as e-Government, has been evolving for over 20 years. As the world moves towards open governance, electronic participation and citizen engagement have emerged as crucial areas for both decision makers and citizens, leading to various pilot projects and innovative approaches in the last decade. Contributions from leading researchers present the latest findings, including theoretical foundations, methodologies, architectures, technical frameworks, and lessons learned in open, collaborative governance and online citizen engagement. The book is structured into three sections: the first, “Public Policy Debate Foundations,” discusses processes for scoping, planning, and evaluating citizen engagement. The second section, “Information and Communication Technologies for Citizen Participation,” offers practical strategies for creating collaborative governance infrastructures. The final section critiques past developments and outlines future research directions in ICT-enabled governance. Targeted at academic researchers and graduate students in computer, social, political, and management sciences, the book also serves practitioners in e-Governance, public administration officials, and ICT professionals involved in policy modeling and e-Governance projects.

This book discusses the latest developments in the field of open data. The opening of data by public organizations has the potential to improve the public sector, inspire business innovation, and establish transparency. With this potential comes unique challenges; these developments impact the operation of governments as well as their relationship with private sector enterprises and society. Changes at the technical, organizational, managerial, and political level are taking place, which, in turn, impact policy-making and traditional institutional structures. This book contributes to the systematic analysis and publication of cutting-edge methods, tools, and approaches for more efficient data sharing policies, practices, and further research. Topics discussed include an introduction to open data, the open data landscape, the open data life cycle, open data policies, organizational issues, interoperability, infrastructure, business models, open data portal evaluation, and research directions, best practices, and guidelines. Written to address different perspectives, this book will be of equal interest to students and researchers, ICT industry staff, practitioners, policy makers and public servants.