Educating the next generation of customs professionals

Are there ways to improve compliance, safety, security,<br/>operational efficiency and information quality in<br/>international trade? Reduce the administrative burden<br/>for business and government? Foster the uniform<br/>application of Customs legislation? Encourage mutual<br/>understanding between the public and private sector,<br/>and even...

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...

A Stakeholder Analysis of Business-to-Government Information Sharing: The Governance of a Public-Private Platform

ICT enables business-to-government (b-to-g) information exchange, which can be used to enhance control and compliance by businesses. However, sharing information can cause resistance by businesses, as for them information is key to competitive advantage, whereas governments need this information to conduct their tasks at lower costs. In this...

Enhancing Visibility in International Supply Chains: The Data Pipeline Concept

With increasing global trade and growing emphasis on security, enhanced information sharing between actors in global supply chains is required. Currently, the data about cargo available in the supply chain does not provide a timely and accurate description of the goods. To solve this data quality issue, data should be captured upstream at the...

Norm Contextualization (extended abstract)

A context-aware normative structure in MAS

Innovative ICT solutions for monitoring and facilitating international trade

The use of information and communication technology (ICT) for international trade is increasingly impor- tant. The EU-funded projects ITAIDE and CASSANDRA propose further innovations to solve the trade con- trol and facilitation dilemma.

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A research agenda for information quality assurance in public safety networks: Information orchestration as the middle ground between hierarchical and netcentric approaches

One of the key challenges in public safety networks is to ensure a high level of information quality (IQ) during disaster response. Since many evaluation reports on disaster response efforts have revealed instances of poor IQ, both academics and practitioners are in search of information architectures that assure IQ. This article focuses on the...

Designing for trust: A case of value-sensitive design

In this paper, we consider the meaning, roles, and uses of trust in the economic and public domain, focusing on the task of designing systems for trust in information technology. We analyze this task by means of a survey of what trust means in the economic and public domain, using the model proposed by Lewicki and Bunker, and using the emerging...