Exploring factors that influence information sharing choices of organizations in networks

Organizations do not just decide on whether or not to exchange information digitally. In many cases, there are multiple alternative configurations of inter-organizational systems (IOS) that facilitate such information sharing. Although a lot is known about the factors that influence whether organizations do or do not adopt IOS, little is known...

Electronic Government and Electronic Participation

Electronic government and electronic participation continue to transform the public sector and society worldwide and are constantly being transformed themselves by emerging information and communication technologies. This book presents papers from the 14th International Federation for Information Processing’s EGOV conference (IFIP EGOV 2015),...

IT-enabled Resilient, Seamless and Secure Global Supply Chains: Introduction, Overview and Research Topics

This paper is the introduction to the fourth Workshop on IT-enabled Resilient, Seamless and Secure Global Supply Chains (WITNESS 2015). In the paper, we present a synthesis of the innovation agendas of a series of international research, development and demonstration projects that seek to make supply chains more efficient and more secure. From...

Understanding Public-Private Collaboration Configurations for International Information Infrastructures

Collaboration between the public and the private sector is seen as an instrument to make governance smarter, more effective, and more efficient. However, whereas there is literature on public-private collaboration, very little of it addresses how these collaborations can be shaped to make use of the huge potential that technological innovations...

Exploring factors that influence information sharing choices of organizations in networks

Organizations do not just decide on whether or not to exchange information digitally. In many cases, there are multiple alternative configurations of inter-organizational systems (IOS) that facilitate such information sharing. Although a lot is known about the factors that influence whether organizations do or do not adopt IOS, little is known...

Stakeholder Engagement in Policy Development: Observations and Lessons from International Experience

This chapter provides a starting point for better understanding how different approaches, tools, and technologies can support effective stakeholder participation in policy development. Participatory policy making involves stakeholders in various stages of the policy process and can focus on both the substance of the policy problem or on...

Cassandra - D7.3.5 - M30 status: Report dissemination results

This deliverable is a status report on the dissemination activities and results in the CASSANDRA project. These status reports are made regularly, with one more to come at the project’s finish. Together, these make up deliverable D7.3 – Dissemination results. In this report, the results of the dissemination activities that have taken place in...

Governing Logistics Information Platforms

The Extended Single Window (ESW) project aims to support goods flows by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Specifically, the project takes the concept of Single Windows (often used in the sense that governments offer a single portal or interface to which businesses can submit information, supporting re-ruse by multiple agencies and...

Interconnecting Governments, Businesses and Citizens: A Comparison of Two Digital Infrastructures

Public and private organizations in various areas are setting up digital Information Infrastructures (IIs) for interconnecting government, businesses and citizens. IIs can create value by sharing and integrating data of multiple ac-tors. This can be the basis for value added services and especially collaborations of public and private partners...

Developing Multi-Layer Information Infrastructures: Advancing Social Innovation through Public–Private Governance

Information infrastructures of businesses and government are increasingly interwoven and highly dependent on each other. Though often referred to as sociotechnical innovations, the development of these information infrastructures often has a technological focus. The related and even concurrent development of new social practices is understudied....

Cassandra - WP400 - final report of living lab 2

This CASSANDRA LL2 final deliverable contains all information regarding the CASSANDRA Living Lab Europe – USA via Bremerhaven including information from two intermediate reports (CASSANDRA D4.21 and D4.22) about the very same Living Lab handed in during runtime of the Living Lab. CASSANDRA Living Lab 2 shows in a practical way how to improve...

Cassandra - D6.3 - final protocol: Seventh Framework Programme THEME Monitoring and Tracking of Shipping Containers Security

The Cassandra project addressed procedures and methods (protocols) for government supervision of international trade lanes. Specifically, it looked at the impact of the Cassandra innovations on the procedures and methods to assess risks (risk assessment protocols). This covers the way in which the businesses of a specific trade lane interact...

Cassandra - D7.3 - final report: Dissemination results

This deliverable is the final report on the dissemination activities and results in the CASSANDRA project. During the project, several status reports were made and published. In this report, the results of the dissemination activities that have taken place during the project are described. During the first year, many dissemination results were...

A Living Lab Framework: Facilitating the adoption of innovations in international information infrastructures

One of the key challenges that international supply chains face today is the need for improving the quality of the data that is used for business operations and compliance. In many supply chains, individual parties in the chain work with low quality data, even though somewhere in the chain, better data is available. The systems of supply chain...

Facilitating Adoption of International Information Infrastructures: A Living Labs Approach

One of the key challenges that governments face in supervising international supply chains is the need for improving the quality of data accompanying the logistics flow. In many supply chains, individual parties in the chain work with low quality data for their operations and compliance, even though somewhere in the supply chain, better data is...

Cassandra - D7.3.4 - M24 status report dissemination results

This deliverable is a status report on the dissemination activities and results in the CASSANDRA project. These status reports are made regularly, with two more to come. Together, these make up deliverable D7.3 – Dissemination results. In this fifth report, the results of the dissemination activities that have taken place in the first year of...