Value Sensitive Transfer (VST) of Systems Among Countries

Abstract

Systems like large technical and operational networks are necessary in modern societies, yet they are costly and time-consuming to develop. Instead of countries and organizations having to build systems from scratch, the transfer of systems is becoming more common. Yet systems reflect the values of the societies in which they are built and of the designers who develop them. Public values differ among cultures and countries; this not only hinders the transfer of systems but results in a lack of their adoption and acceptance by the receiving country. This article investigates the case of the transfer of parliamentary webcasting/telecasting systems from the US to Pakistan to better understand the international transfer of e-government systems. Although the concept of systems transfer is simple, implementing the system within a different cultural setting was more complicated than initially anticipated. The transfer of the system was influenced by the political objectives and cultural differences. Value tensions were found, especially surrounding openness, transparency, and accountability. Hence, the authors propose broadening the perspective on the transfer and development of systems by taking value differences into consideration. Toward this purpose, a framework for designing Value Sensitive Transfers (VST) is proposed.

Advances in Electronic Government (e-Government) Adoption Research in SAARC Countries

“…This was followed by some others but relatively less frequently used methodologies including case study (5) (e.g. [19]), interview (2) (e.g. [14]) and content analysis (2) (e.g.…”

“…Egovernment in its various forms including m-government was the most frequently used keywords with all 48 papers utilized them. This is followed by adoption (19), India (14), communication technologies (13), trust (9) and developing countries (9) are some of the other more frequently used keywords used in e-government adoption research here. The use of keywords such as e-government and adoption as the two leading keywords is not surprising as these keywords are related to the major themes of the research.…”

“…[29]) used student data and the remaining 10 studies (e.g. [19], [20]) were based on literature reviews, content analysis of egovernment portals, descriptive research or case studies. Given that development of egovernment in SAARC countries is not very old they have started riding on the wagon wheel of evaluating their e-government initiatives using primary data however as some research studies are still trying to understand the development of egovernment initiatives using literature review, case studies, content analysis and descriptive research before the performance of systems could be evaluated using primary data.…”

Proposing a Value-Based Digital Government Model: Toward Broadening Sustainability and Public Participation

“…Governments worldwide began using information and communication technology (ICT) for their operations since its advent in the 1970s and 1980s. However, developing and implementing digital government are value-laden activities that are handled and carried out by citizens [1][2][3][4][5]. In this regard, with the rapid advance of ICT, the values attached to government utilization of ICT have continuously evolved.…”