Regulating peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms in institutional voids: Case studies on how European capital cities interact with Airbnb to reduce institutional voids

The rapid growth of the internet has resulted in increased interconnectedness. Platforms such as Airbnb have been raising rapidly in the past century, as a result of an increased online demand for peer-to-peer market places, on which all kinds of private goods can be shared with peers. This is also referred to as the sharing or collaborative...

Developing a structured approach for local governments to decide on the adoption of a blockchain-based local loyalty program

An increase in the number of retail vacancies is troubling the city centres throughout the Netherlands. An instrument offered to the local government to reduce this problem is the promotion of the city centre. By means of this thesis it is researched if a blockchain-based local loyalty program would contribute to the promotion of a city centre....

Open Spending Portal Design Principles: Enhancing Online Citizen Engagement

In the era of open government, citizens are one of the stakeholders of a country. With the emerging concept of transparency and accountability, supported by ICTs deployments in government areas, citizens have more access to the government. Budget is among the many areas within governments that have utilized ICTs for many purposes, one of them is...

Self-Sovereign Identities for Scaling Up Cash Transfer Projects: Designing a blockchain based digital identity system

Situation: Information management enables humanitarian organizations to make adequate interventions based on timely, appropriate and trustworthy information. A crucial type of information are identities, because they can be used to assess vulnerability and efficiently manage aid distribution. Vulnerability determines who receives aid first...

Design for values in smart grid systems: An exploratory empirical investigation of the ethical values and their interrelationship that play a role in the British public debate on smart grid systems

Smart grid systems (SGSs) are often considered as enablers to the transition to a sustainable economy and power system, because they integrate ICT with renewable energy into the electricity grid. Seemingly, there are societal concerns regarding the impact of SGSs, which underlie ethical values. Due to a lack of understanding and thus...

Policy recommendations to improve data quality in the electricity chain

Data quality is essential in the modern world. The higher the quality of the data, the more information, knowledge and thereby wisdom can be retrieved. Besides better wisdom high quality data has another advantage: it can save costs since errors can be avoided. Low quality data is costing a lot of money to companies and will lead to information...

Towards the future of humanitarian UAV adoption: Technology assessment and cooperative stakeholder strategies

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Towards a Governance Structure for the Data-Driven Prioritization of Humanitarian Aid: A data ecosystem approach

The incidence of natural disasters worldwide is increasing. As a result, there is a growing number of people in need, whereas limited resources to help these people are available. It is therefore important to effectively and efficiently prioritize the most vulnerable people in the preparedness phase, and the most affected people in the response...

Comparing Energy Efficiency Policies affecting Technology Adoption by Households and the Role of the Intermediary: An Agent-Based Modeling study

Improving energy efficiency is marked as one of the key strategies to tackle global warming. Therefore policy makers try to design policies that steer our society towards a more energy efficient way of living. An important target for policy makers is the residential sector. Households use fuel and electricity, to power all sorts of residential...

The usability of the Process Mining analysis method to improve processes of the Netherlands Ministry of Defence: Graduation thesis at the Netherlands Ministry of Defence

In recent years, the Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MoD) modelled, standardized, and digitally secured many of its organization-broad business processes. However, MoD experiences great difficulty in gaining insights in these processes and steering them productively. The novel business process analyses method Process Mining appeared to be a...