How to Develop an Open and Flexible Information Infrastructure for the Public Sector?

Hornnes, Erik; Jansen, Arild; Langeland, øivind

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14799-9_26

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“…IIs are embedded in, and coevolve with, other infrastructures (Aanestad et al , 2017). To emphasize the specific characteristics of the public sector, Hornnes et al (2010) articulated the concept of government II (GII), including technical, organizational and legal structures (Hornnes et al , 2010). A GII is thus also part of a governance infrastructure (Johnston, 2010).…”

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The state of information infrastructure for global climate governance

Engvall

Flak

2022

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Purpose The world is facing global challenges that require international collaboration. This study aims to describe and analyze how digital technologies are applied in global governance to respond to such critical challenges. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply an interpretive case study of climate reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a case of digitalization in global governance. It includes interviews with officials in the Swedish public administration and the UNFCCC secretariat to cover national and international levels. The authors describe the reporting process and analyze the role of information systems through the lens of information infrastructures. Findings “Information infrastructure” is a valuable instrument to understand digitalization in global governance as a complex interplay between information systems, information, standards, organizations, people and social structures. The level of sophistication is, however, basic with a large potential for improvement – for instance in analytical and communicative services to support evidence-based decision-making and assessment of progress. Research limitations/implications The data collection is limited to one governance process: reporting. Future studies should complement the findings by broadening the scope to other processes. The authors propose that digital global governance is dependent on an effective information infrastructure, and that the five design principles by Hanseth and Lyytinen (2016) offer guidance when developing this. Practical implications The results indicate a large unutilized potential of digital technologies to improve progress assessment, communicate more effectively with stakeholders and identify new ways of visualizing data to support decision making in global climate policy. Social implications Use of digital technologies, as suggested in the article, could strengthen the implementation capability of climate goals, which is of urgent need. Originality/value While most research in digital governance considers the national or municipal level, this study provides empirical insight and theorization of digital technologies in a global governance setting.

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The state of information infrastructure for global climate governance

Engvall

Flak

2022

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“…The use of e-government strategies has been increasingly growing, as it gives multiple benefits such as higher quality public services through electronic means (Tambouris et al, 2014), as well as facilitating investment and economic performance while increasing awareness, knowledge, skills and consumer sophistication (Faid et al, 2020). Several countries around the world have adopted e-government both at a central government level (Molnár, 2017; Viscusi and Batini, 2011), a local government level (Bousdekis and Kardaras, 2020; Weerakkody et al, 2019), or in the public sector (Bouwman et al, 2011; Hornnes et al, 2010).…”

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Aligning business strategy and information technologies in local governments using enterprise architectures

Gallegos-Baeza

Caro

Rodríguez

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Information Development

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Nowadays, municipalities can provide services to citizens through information technologies, improving their massification and access. These are generally provided based on a country’s laws, but digitalization dissimilarities and the lack of guidelines complicate an equilibrium in their provision between the different municipalities of a country. On the other hand, enterprise architectures can be used for standardization, convergence, and interoperability in electronic governments, as they allow a holistic perspective for viewing the information technology resources of a municipality and aligning them with their business strategy. The current proposal emerges in this scenario, with the objective of presenting a method for developing reference enterprise architectures based on e-services and its use in a specific case. Concretely, a reference enterprise architecture has been developed for a set of minimum e-services that must be provided by Chilean municipalities.

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“…El caso de la alcaldía de Nueva York que transformó su sistema de información interno para ser público y de atención ciudadana se ha convertido en un ejemplo a seguir (Newsom y Dickey, 2013). Dos aportaciones para entender la segunda dirección de los datos abiertos y el gobierno se refieren a los casos de cómo organizar información flexible para el sector público (Hornnes et al, 2010) y al de uso de datos abiertos sobre el censo en España (Fernández et al, 2011). En cambio, la aportación de Kalampokis et al (2011), que propone el desarrollo de guías, manuales o lineamientos que ayuden a comparar la implementación y los esfuerzos de apertura de datos en Europa, resulta relevante al ser una de las escasas contribuciones que buscan organizar este campo estructuradamente.…”

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Gobierno abierto y transparencia: construyendo un marco conceptual

Sandoval‐Almazán

2015

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Abstract:The idea of open government has spread across Latin American countries causing confusion and ambiguous interpretations. The concepts of "open government" and "transparency" have been used as synonyms and have created false expectations, but mostly they have been used to implement public policies and government strategies to accomplish the goal of creating a more open government. The purpose of this research is to provide some theoretical elements to clear this confusion. In order to achieve such goal, related papers of academic journals over the past six years have been reviewed and classified on three main paths of knowledge. From this point a concept of open government is proposed and discussed. The aim of this paper is to contribute with a theoretical framework that supports research on open government, transparency and accountability.Key words: open government, transparency, theory, concepts, e-government. Resumen: La confusión del término anglosajón open government así como del término transparency han traído consigo ambigüedades y creado falsas expectativas. Además de utilizar ambos conceptos como sinónimos, se han implementado políticas públicas para hacerlos realidad en distintos países latinoamericanos sin tener una dirección precisa o un objetivo claro. Esta investigación busca aportar elementos teóricos que ayuden a delimitar los principales caminos teóricos que se han seguido y proponer un concepto que distinga tanto la transparencia como el gobierno abierto. Para lograrlo se han revisado las principales revistas académicas y artículos de los últimos seis años y se han agrupado en tres corrientes de pensamiento para proponer un concepto sobre gobierno abierto. El objetivo es contribuir a la construcción de una teoría general más sólida, que ayude a entender mejor el gobierno abierto, la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas.

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How to Develop an Open and Flexible Information Infrastructure for the Public Sector?

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

The state of information infrastructure for global climate governance

The state of information infrastructure for global climate governance

Aligning business strategy and information technologies in local governments using enterprise architectures

Gobierno abierto y transparencia: construyendo un marco conceptual

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