Harnessing spontaneous contributions of citizens on Social Media and networking sites is a major feature of the next generation citizen-led e-Participation paradigm. However …
A systematic review of the DM literature on PSD was performed with the aim to build an operational ontology-based for decision makers. Five public administration journals were …
Online provision of public services (such as passport issuance and establishing a new business) is a priority of eGovernment worldwide for over a decade. Public service provision …
Ontologies have been proposed and studied in the last couple of decades as a way to capture and share people's knowledge about the world in a way that is processable by …
Discovery of government-related resources on the social web through mentions of government-related terms requires domain-specific lexical resources. This chapter …
The impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in government have been debated since their growth two decades ago. The use of ICT in government …
Chapter 1 starts with a detailed discussion on the motivation for this Thesis, followed by a definition of the problem space (section 1.3). It continues with the definition of the research …
Despite the proliferation of e-Participation initiatives, overall efforts towards mainstreaming social media-based and citizen-led political deliberations are still limited. Consequently …
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have revolutionised service provision in the 21st century. In this work, we focus our attention on services whose provision is …