Foreword -- Preface -- Smart Cities and Smart Governments: Definitions, Concepts, and Theoretical Approaches -- Smart Cities and Smart Governments: Methodologies, Tools, and Strategies for Evaluation and Assessment -- Smart Cities and Smart Governments: Empirical Studies and Cases from around...

Part I: Information Communication Technologies in the World of Politics -- Chapter 1. Current Trends in Information Communication Technologies -- Chapter 2. The Normative Framework: Information Communication Technologies, Local Government, and Democratic Theory within the Context of Public...

Introduction: public value and private organizations -- Collaboration and trust-building among public and private actors -- Labeling, certification, and consumer trust -- Privacy, secrecy, and system security -- Strategies for collaborative governance -- Collaborative standards and hard law --...

Information and communications technology -- (ICT) -- Data -- Social media -- Research -- Computer science -- Policy modeling -- Public administration -- Policy analyses -- Information systems -- Social media.

Foreword -- Preface (by a well-known author on e-government) -- List of contributors -- List of reviewers -- Contents (Index) -- Introduction -- Part I. Theoretical Foundations of Smart Cities. Literature Review -- Part II. Dimensions of Smart Cities under the Governmental Context -- Part III....

This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet, and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse. The volume collects original research on the use of social media in political campaigns, electoral...

On January 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. The memorandum declares the new Administration’s commitment to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government and establishing a system linking three principles: transparency, public...

1. Introduction -- 2. Rethinking E-government Evaluation -- 3. Data Openness Evaluation: How open is your public Government data? -- 4. Measuring Usability to Improve the Efficiency of Electronic Signature-based E-Government Solutions -- 5. State-of-the-art review: Measuring efficiency and...

Part 1: General Issues in Government e-Strategic Management -- Chapter 1 Evaluation Methods for e-Strategic Transformation -- Chapter 2 Evaluating e-Government: A Comprehensive Methodological Framework to Assess Policy Impacts -- Chapter 3 Assessing public participation through different lens:...

Technology Appropriation in Nonprofit Organizations -- Empirical Studies of Technology Usage in Nonprofit Settings -- Open Sources Systems and Nonprofit Organizations -- Web 2.0 and Nonprofit Organizations -- Evaluation of IT Systems in Practice -- Technology based Collaboration among Nonprofit...