As Japanese local governments are facing severe financial situation, reduction of administration cost with use of ICT is in burning necessity. However, electronic local government has not been promoted smoothly in Japan, since ICT systems have been introduced without sufficient business process reengineering. On the other hand, the citizens’ needs for enhancing public services have increased. I...

In this position paper we present S-MOVE (Smart and Social Move), a social innovation project funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University). SMOVE is based on a new conception of urban community, that allows citizens to share data and decisions in a smart and innovative way. In order to implement this new vision of urban mobility, called smart mobility, a deep integrat...

This paper describes the research concerning the systematic, intensive and centralized web 2.0 social media exploitation by government agencies for widening and enhancing participative public policy making, which is conducted as part of the research project PADGETS (‘Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying Group Knowledge in Web 2.0 Media’) partially funded by the European Commission. The proposed ap...

The Add-Wijzer project set out to demonstrate the business value of public sector information exploitation by making ‘law information’ more accessible in support of business planning by professionals who are not lawyers. The public-private partnership formed for this task have shown that integration of various businessrelevant data sources along with geographical information and tools can incre...

We explore the limits of petitions and public protests as mechanisms to aggregate dispersed information. We show that if citizens’ signals are not sufficiently precise, information aggregation is impossible, even if the conflict with the policy-maker is small, no matter how large is the population of informed citizens. We characterize the conditions on conflict and the signal structure that gua...

Current challenges in Electronic Government initiatives include performance management, effective and efficient means of sharing information between different stakeholders e.g. government departments in order to improve the quality of service delivery to the citizens. To address these challenges, this paper addresses an application domain of workflow systems in public institutions and proposes ...