Smart governance in the context of smart cities: A literature review

This literature review has focused on smart governance as an emerging domain of study that attracts significant scientific and policy attention. More specifically, this paper aims to provide more insight in the definitions of and relationships between smart governance and concepts such as smart and electronic government, in the context of smart...

Building & sustaining a digital government research center: A director's perspective

This panel provides participants a chance to interact with five digital government research center directors about their experiences in building sustainable digital government research centers. Panelists, selected to provide regional representation, will discuss their experiences and share lessons learned. Topics to be covered building a...

Critical Factors for Open Data Publication and Use: A Comparison of City-level, Regional, and Transnational Cases

There is a lack of research concerning the factors influencing the success or failure of open data initiatives. Based on the results of two workshops, we provide a list of 47 success factors for open data publication and 18 success factors for open data use. We further use three case studies (ENGAGE, Open NY, and Open Vienna) to examine how the...