Agriculture has an important role in human life because it serves as a provider of food, feed for livestock, and bioenergy. Realizing integrated agricultural system North Maluku Province is not easy thing the government, community, or business world. The purpose this research to analyze potential sector owned by each region determination location/region related economic area development policy ...

This chapter discusses practices, opportunities, and challenges in local e-government project management by means of a case study involving interviews, document studies, and an element of action research, over eight months. The analysis against e-government success factors finds seven “critical issues”; political timing, resource allocation, political mandate, distinction between administrative...

This paper investigates whether assigning control of government services provision to a politician or bureaucrat affects the cost of government services. Conceptually, bureaucratic control could reduce costs if (a) costs are hard for voters to observe, weakening the incentives for politicians to exert effort to reduce costs, or (b) bureaucrats’ implicit incentives to reduce costs are strong due...

This minitrack focuses on the interactions between citizens, government, and technology to promote, facilitate, and create smart cities. Smart City is a fuzzy concept, not well defined in theoretical researches nor in empirical projects. However, all the proposed definitions agree on the fact that a Smart City is an urban space that tends to improve the daily life (work, school ...) of its citi...

Cities across the United States are implementing information communication technologies in an effort to improve government services. One such innovation in e-government is the creation of 311 systems, offering a centralized platform where citizens can request services, report non-emergency concerns, and obtain information about the city via hotline, mobile, or web-based applications. The NYC 31...

Big data and predictive analytics have the potential to make cities more efficient. Yet cities often lack the resources to use new data and methods effectively, and private researchers often lack the incentives to help solve the problems that cities face. New platforms—such as Kaggle, TopCoder, and DrivenData—now enable governments and other organizations to outsource large-scale prediction pro...

The idea of a "smart city" is thought to apply overcoming many the challenges that urban areas in twenty-first century face. use technology form 'mobile government' ('m-government') connect public needs with government services. Using mobile application (mobile app) as medium communication one ‘m-government'. This study based on Mobile apps case study, it conducted by using web survey (google f...

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) is well known to assess quality and business processes in a variety of sectors, including government. In this study, we investigate the relationship between aspects of the MBNQA’s leadership triad and knowledge management in an e-government context. Specifically, we survey 1,100 employees of a medium-sized city government in the United States ...