Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the theme of this special issue, “Advances in e‐democracy: engaging citizens and electorates”. Design/methodology/approach – An overview is provided of developments in e‐government before providing a summary discussion of the papers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how blogging has grown as an online phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach – Examines the way that blogs have become a phenomenon that embrace private authors who go online to write personal diaries through to representatives from different...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the emergence of blogging in the news sphere. If blogs represent a genuinely new breed of news provision, then they should adhere to some of the founding principles of mainstream news and journalism. A key principle in this respect is news...

There is a growing interest in the EU in the data economy, in IoT, robots and autonomous systems and in the emerging challenges they pose for EU policy makers. The purpose of this study was to identify the most important barriers to the development of the data economy and the use of IoT, robots...

The 2003 Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information (PSI Directive) contributed to change Public Sector Bodies' approach towards data, making them more open and re-usable. Further modifications in the Directive in 2013 also helped public authorities to become key players in the rising data...

There is a growing interest in the EU in the data economy, in IoT, robots and autonomous systems and in the emerging challenges they pose for EU policy makers. The purpose of this study was to identify the most important barriers to the development of the data economy and the use of IoT, robots...

With the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme coming to an end in 2020, the question of the long-term sustainability of the CEF-funded Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs) beyond the programme needs to be addressed. The objective of this study was to assist policy makers in selecting the...

With the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme coming to an end in 2020, the question of the long-term sustainability of the CEF-funded Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs) beyond the programme needs to be addressed. The objective of this study was to assist policy makers in selecting the...

The study provides an overview of the development of cloud computing in Europe in absence of policy measures, and of the most important barriers for its further development. It provides an assessment of the likely impacts (costs and benefits) of policy measures supporting cloud computing to be...

The study provides an overview of the development of cloud computing in Europe in absence of policy measures, and of the most important barriers for its further development. It provides an assessment of the likely impacts (costs and benefits) of policy measures supporting cloud computing to be...