In the last few years, the public administration (PA) underwent deep changes from a bureaucratic model to a managerial model. The administrative action is now based on principles of transparency, effectiveness,economization, efficiency, and wants to support the active participation of the citizens. Therefore, the P.A. needs to have an information system (IS) which is able to support this proces...

In an attempt to deliver better service performance to businesses and improve the interactions, many public organizations have transformed their business activities by adopting information systems. The reformations of the government-to-business have led to the evaluation of the system service performance and investigation of the factors that shape the success of the IS implementation. Hence, th...

This paper contributes to an improved understanding of datafication effects of open government Information Systems (IS). We focus on a particular category of these IS that is designed to provide open performance data of a public sector (education, health, social services) in the name of accountability and transparency. While acknowledging possible positive datafication effects, in this paper we...

In Infotopia, citizens enjoy a wide range of information about the organizations upon which they rely for the satisfaction of their vital interests. The provision of that information is governed by principles of democratic transparency. Democratic transparency both extends and critiques current enthusiasms about transparency. It urges us to conceptualize information politically, as a resource t...

Individuals and corporate users are persistently considering cloud adoption due to its significant benefits compared to traditional computing environments. The data and applications in the cloud are stored in an environment that is separated, managed and maintained externally to the organisation. Therefore, it is essential for cloud providers to demonstrate and implement adequate security pract...

The growing interest in the use of autonomous systems for both military and commercial applications has been accompanied by a concomitant increase in research involving human-agent interaction. Transparency has been investigated as one factor that could improve human trust in, and appropriate reliance on, autonomous systems. This report provides a review of studies that have examined how the tr...