The promise of digital government is to support citizen engagement and participation in government, improve government processes, and foster external interactions with the society. The goal in the service development under the digital governance concept is to create services and delivery systems that are economic, efficient, effective, and equitable, and thus, create value for several stakeholders. Creation of such digital government services is however, a challenging task as it requires a smooth co-operation between several different actors with varying views and operation practices. In this paper, we analyze an empirical study of a co-creation project of a digital government service in Finland through activity theory lenses. The aim is to identify the co-creation activity system and further, to evaluate the outcome by applying a value co-creation (VCC) measurement framework.government service developed as a part of Action Programme on eServices and eDemocracy (SADe programme) set by the Ministry of Finance in Finland is then presented. Finally, case-specific, but with certain limitations transferable findings are outlined in the development of the service for construction permits and other permits related to infrastructure, which involve multiple stakeholders.
Value co-creation between public and private organizations