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Journal articles on the topic "Digital Governance"
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Wohlers, A. "Digital Governance." Choice Reviews Online 48, no. 04 (December 1, 2010): 627–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.48.04.627.
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Singh, Aman. "E-GOVERNANCE: MOVING TOWARDS DIGITAL GOVERNANCE." VIDYA - A JOURNAL OF GUJARAT UNIVERSITY 2, no. 1 (May 26, 2023): 204–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.47413/vidya.v2i1.173.
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Information communication and technology (ICT) has revolutionized the daily lives of citizens across the globe. The invention of technology like artificial intelligence, web 1.o to 5.0, chat bots, cloud technology, Internet of things, have changed the governance in public and private sector. Governments across the globe are adopting the e-governance approach to run the daily affairs of the country. The use of information communication technology has facilitated efficient delivery of public services. Digitization of public services has helped in establishing the trust towards the government. Improving the public administration and governance has become the topmost priority for the socio-economic development of the country. Internet has changed the traditional way of business working. The communication between the government, citizens and business is transformed with the use of ICT tools. E-governance is a step towards making the administration citizen-centric and revamping the delivery of public services. E-governance in financial sector helps in bringing economic prosperity by curbing the practice of giving bribe and remove corruption. E-governance has significantly impacted the communication between the citizens and administration. This paper explores the concept, meaning, challenges of e-governance. The article points out the importance of e-governance and suggests various steps to make e-governance successful. Qualitative research method is followed in writing this article.
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Carrizales, Tony, Marc Holzer, Seang-Tae Kim, and Chan-Gon Kim. "Digital Governance Worldwide." International Journal of Electronic Government Research 2, no. 4 (October 2006): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jegr.2006100101.
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Musiani, Francesca. "Infrastrutture digitali, governance e trasformazioni del lavoro." SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO, no. 163 (August 2022): 70–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sl2022-163004.
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Nel corso dell'ultimo decennio, gli studi sociali della scienza e della tecnologia (science and technology studies o STS), in particolar modo gli infrastructure studies, hanno contribuito ad aprire nuovi orizzonti di ricerca relativi allo studio della governance delle tecnologie che strutturano le nostre società digitalizzate. Questi contributi suggeriscono che il potere e del controllo negli ambienti digitali si esercitano in modi spesso informali e poco codificati, nonché discreti o addirittura invisibili per numerosi attori sociali. Questo articolo si propone di fornire un panorama dei modi in cui gli infrastructure studies si stanno avvicinando alle tematiche delle trasformazioni del lavoro nell'era digitale e più specificamente alle ricerche sul digital labor. Dopo una parte introduttiva consacrata alla presentazione degli infrastructure studies come mezzo di analisi delle infrastrutture digitali come strumenti di governance, l'articolo discute tre campi di analisi in cui tali prospettive vengono ad incrociare gli studi interdisciplinari del lavoro digitale: la comprensione del digital labor come "infrastruttura umana", l'analisi dei fenomeni di "governance algoritmica" nelle trasformazioni del lavoro, e l'esame della "platform governance" in relazione al lavoro digitale. L'articolo conclude con qualche riflessione sulle evoluzioni attuali di Internet come "meta-infrastruttura" della maggior parte delle altre infrastrutture critiche, e sul legame tra questo fenomeno e trasformazioni del lavoro.
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Li, Junjie, Guohui Zhan, Xin Dai, Meng Qi, and Bangfan Liu. "Innovation and Optimization Logic of Grassroots Digital Governance in China under Digital Empowerment and Digital Sustainability." Sustainability 14, no. 24 (December 8, 2022): 16470. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142416470.
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In the digital age, digital resources are naturally sustainable, and they have become the basic technologies and platforms by which to maintain the sustainable development of the social economy. At a time when global epidemic prevention and control are becoming increasingly dynamic, digital empowerment has become a basic tool by which to promote sustainable social and economic development. In terms of digital empowerment, grassroots digital empowerment has become the most critical and urgent link to strengthen. In this study, a literature analysis using CiteSpace and NVivo software shows that the research prospects of grassroots digital governance are broad, but there is a lack of communication and cooperation between the research subjects, and a cooperative network of close and benign interaction has not been formed. There are many hot topics in the research, mainly focusing on five aspects: digitalization, grassroots governance, digital governance, digital technology, and digital countryside. The theme of these papers is changing to digital empowerment, technology empowerment, and “digital intelligence governance”. These characteristics and problems correspond to the practice of digital governance at the grassroots level in China. Therefore, in the theory and practice of Chinese grassroots digital governance, we must adhere to the problem-oriented principle and take “problem-driven” as the basic logic of grassroots digital governance. At the same time, it is necessary to consider the complexity of China’s grassroots communities and the stages of governance technology, adhere to the principles of integrated development and collaborative innovation, and take “mixed governance” as the main logic of grassroots digital governance. Generally speaking, we should realize optimization in the innovation of grassroots digital governance from three aspects, namely, strengthening the integration of grassroots digital systems, improving the ability to solve the problems of digital governance, and advancing the transformation of grassroots digital governance with incremental governance logic.
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Sharma, Gajendra. "Digital Governance in Nepal." Journal of Management Research 12, no. 3 (June 21, 2020): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jmr.v12i3.17061.
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Digital governance or e-governance is the application of information and communication technology (ICT) for delivering government services, exchange of ICT between government and people. The government services are made available to the citizens in a convenient, efficient and transparent manner through e-governance. The purpose of this study is to highlight digital governance in Nepal during and after international pandemic COVID-19. This paper emphasizes review of different studies on development of e-government and e-governance in Nepal as well as in developing countries. The outcome of the study will be helpful for policy makers and leaders to formulate effective e-government policies and standard during crisis.
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Gasser, Urs, and Virgílio Almeida. "Futures of digital governance." Communications of the ACM 65, no. 3 (March 2022): 30–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3477502.
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Almeida, Virgilio A. F., Danilo Doneda, and Jacqueline de Souza Abreu. "Cyberwarfare and Digital Governance." IEEE Internet Computing 21, no. 2 (March 2017): 68–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mic.2017.23.
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Zamora, David, Juan Carlos Barahona, and Ileana Palaco. "Case: Digital Governance Office." Journal of Business Research 69, no. 10 (October 2016): 4484–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.03.013.
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Grigalashvili, Vephkhvia. "Digital Government and Digital Governance: Grand Concept." International Journal of Scientific and Management Research 06, no. 01 (2023): 01–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.37502/ijsmr.2023.6201.
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Development of digital democracy domain substantially depends on how correctly are understood conceptual dimensions and how clearly are determined functions of digital government and digital governance, as digital government represents a fundamental shift in the way governments around the world are embracing their mission and digital governance is no longer just a technological enabler. Digital government and digital governance (as terms and concepts), known as multidimensional, multifaceted and multidisciplinary phenomenon, are often treated as synonymous and used interchangeably in the academic literature or formal documents. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly difficult to clear existing conceptual ambiguity between them. There are no universally accepted definitions of both abstractions. Such conceptual uncertainty has a negative impact on the development of digital democracy. The research objective of this article is to provide a deeper understanding of digital government and digital governance concepts through empirical studies and scatter the existing ambiguity in differences between these two concepts as this variety is not just questions of academic nuance. Based on a comparative analysis of digital government and digital governance conceptual meanings, this article offers an approach according to which digital government and digital governance represents two various but closely related and co-existing concepts. Furthermore, in the concluding section of the article, there is suggested recommendation regarding development a new grand concept in which both multidimensional conceptual visions will be combined.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Digital Governance"
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Bai, Guo. "Three Essays on Governance Designs in Digital Age." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLH011/document.
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Le principal objectif de cette thèse est d'expliquer en quoi l’efficience statique (static efficiency), l’efficience de coordination (coordinative efficiency) et l’efficience créative (creative efficiency) jouent un rôle déterminant dans la conception de la gouvernance à l'ère numérique. Il s’agit également d’étudier des mécanismes originaux de gouvernance, au-delà de la traditionnelle dimension marché-hiérarchie, pouvant faciliter les processus de coordination intégrative (integrative coordination) ainsi que de création collective dans les organisations.La thèse comprend trois essais. Le premier est une contribution de nature théorique montrant que l’économie des coûts de transaction (Williamson 1979, 1991, 1996, 2002) ne permet pas de rendre compte de façon satisfaisante de la conception de la gouvernance à l’ère numérique. Le modèle conceptuel normatif proposé contribue à repenser celle-ci dans une perspective pluraliste intégrant complexité et variété. Les choix de gouvernance ne sont ainsi plus limités à la seule dimension marché-hiérarchie comme le laisse penser l’économie des coûts de transaction. Une perspective intégrant la construction sociale des modes d’organisation (Giddens, 1985; Greenwood et al. 2011) permet de définir une variété de formes de gouvernance. Il est possible de représenter, dans un espace à trois dimensions (efficience statique, efficience de coordination et efficience créative), les différentes configurations de gouvernance sous la forme d’un triangle. Cette représentation peut être appliquée afin de rendre compte des choix de gouvernance possibles à différents niveaux organisationnels.Les deux essais suivants sont à dominante empirique. Ils visent à prolonger le premier en étudiant le lien entre des configurations innovantes de gouvernance et la performance des organisations en matière d’efficacité de coordination et d’efficacité créative. Le deuxième essai se concentre sur la coordination d’intégration dans les organisations. Des structures organisationnelles distribuées à plusieurs couches ou layered distributed organizational structures (Simon, 1962), des plans définis ex ante de façon imprécise ou broad-brushed ex ante plans (Edmondson, Bohmer et Pisano, 2001), ainsi que des semi-structures (Brown et Eisenhardt, 1997) s’avèrent utiles au processus de coordination lorsque les interdépendances sont complexes et incertaines. Le troisième essai porte sur la performance des organisations en matière de créativité collective. Il s’intéresse notamment aux dispositifs organisationnels facilitant l’émergence d’une telle créativité tout en préservant stabilité et efficacité. Plusieurs formes de perturbation qualifiées d’ordonnées (ordered disruption), tant au niveau spatial (ordered spatial disruption) que temporel (ordered temporal disruption) et affectif (ordered affective disruption), contribuent à l'émergence de la créativité collective.Le matériel empirique utilisé dans les deuxième et troisième essais provient d’une étude des modes de gouvernance de différents projets de villes intelligentes (smart-cities) nécessitant une collaboration entre plusieurs organisationsThe main objective of this dissertation is to explain why coordinative efficiency, creative efficiency, together with static efficiency are all critical goals of governance design in digital age, and to explore innovative governance arrangements, beyond the one-dimensional line defined by “market” and “hierarchy”, that can facilitate the processes of integrative coordination, and collective creation in organizations.The dissertation is composed of three essays. Essay 1 is a theory paper that provides the overall theoretical arguments about why transaction cost economics (Williamson 1979, 1991, 1996, 2002) is no longer a satisfactory theoretical framework for governance design in the digital age, and offers a normative model which suggest possibilities of much more nuanced, complicated and pluralistic governance choices than suggested by transaction cost economics. It is argued that potential governance choices are not solely situated on a one-dimensional line between hierarchy and market, as transaction cost economics asserts. The rich connotations of socially constructed agency (Giddens, 1985; Greenwood et al. 2011) provide diverse possibilities of governance arrangements, which spread across a triangular plane in a three-dimensional space defined by static efficiency, coordinative efficiency and creative efficiency (see Figure 1). This paper provides both graphic and mathematical presentations of this three-dimensional model for governance design, which can be applied to different levels of organizing.Essay 2 and 3 are two empirical papers that endeavor to extend Essay 1 by finding out the exact relationship between certain innovative governance arrangements with organizations’ performance in coordinative and creative efficiencies. Essay 2 focuses on the realization of integrative coordination in organizations. It found out that layered distributed organizational structure (Simon, 1962), broad-brushed ex ante plan (Edmondson, Bohmer and Pisano, 2001), and semi-structures (Brown and Eisenhardt, 1997) are beneficial in facilitating an ongoing coordination process when interdependencies are complex and uncertain. Essay 3 focuses on organizations’ performance in collective creativity (Shalley et al., 2004; George, 2007), especially on what governance arrangements can best allow collective creativity to emerge without overly sacrificing organizational stability and efficiency. It is discovered that “ordered disruption”, including ordered spatial disruption, ordered temporal disruption and ordered affective disruption, have positive effects on the emergence of collective creativity. Both Essay 2 and Essay 3 use collaborative organizations on smart city projects as the empirical setting. The findings of these two empirical papers are grounded on multiple case studies on those collaborative organizations
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Filho, Henrique Carlos Parra Parra. "Capacidades estatais na coprodução de TICs governamentais de participação." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100138/tde-09072018-154651/.
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Esta pesquisa lança mão do conceito de Capacidades de Governo Relacionadas a Utilização de TICs em Processos de Participação Social (CGTPS) e investiga o caso de produção do aplicativo digital da 3a. Conferencia Nacional de Juventude para compreender quais capacidades estatais foram demandadas pelo Estado e como foram mobilizadas da Sociedade, contribuindo para o debate sobre capacidades estatais e governança digital para a coprodução de tecnologias governamentais digitaisThis research makes use of the concept of Government Capabilities Related to the Use of ICTs in Social Participation Processes (CGTPS) and investigates the case of production of the 3rd National Youth Conference\'s digital application to understand what state capacities were demanded by the state and how they were mobilized from the Society, contributing to the debate on state capabilities and digital governance for the co-production of digital government technologies
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Abuhasirah, Mohammad. "Smart city : a comprehensive digital framework for participatory governance." Thesis, Lille 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LIL1I020.
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Cette thèse concerne le développement d'un cadre global pour la gouvernance participative, qui constitue une question importante pour une implication efficace des citoyens et des autres parties prenantes dans le développement urbain. Les villes sont actives dans la mise en œuvre de divers aspects de la gouvernance participative. Cependant, certains chercheurs ont souligné des limites dans les pratiques actuelles et ont exprimé des besoins pour surmonter ces difficultés par l’utilisation de la technologie. Cette recherche contribue à cet objectif à travers le développement d'une méthodologie globale pour la gouvernance participative et son application à la ville de LilleThis thesis concerns the development of a comprehensive framework for the participatory governance, which constitutes an important issue for an effective involvement of citizens and other stakeholders in urban development. This issue meets a large concern around the world. Cities are active in implementing various forms of participatory governance. However, some scholars highlighted a high need for innovation in this area to cope with the limitations of the current practices and to use the digital technology as a driver for Participatory Governance development. This research contributes to this objective through the development of a comprehensive participatory governance methodology and its application to the city of Lille
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Bergkvist, Malin. "Politisk styrning för ökad digital delaktighet : Aspekter av "governance" och "government"." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-27212.
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Bachelor thesis in political science by Malin Bergkvist, autumn 12. Title:Political governance for increased digital inclusion. Subtitle: Aspects of "governance" and "government". Supervisor: Joachim Åström. While digital inclusion is a hot topic in both academia and in policy circles, little research is done when it comes to governance issues. To help filling this gap, this essay asks which mode of governance is dominant in the field of digital inclusion. What aspects of governance "governance" or "government" is the dominant in the field of digital inclusion, and is it possible to see any difference in how the state governance is described by the government and perceived by other actors? To answer this overarching question, two sub queries are formulated and analyzed. First, what aspect of "governance" or "government" dominate when state governance of the area are examined based on how the government describes it? Second, what aspect of "governance" or "government” dominate when state governance are studied based on how the perceived by other actors and stakeholders active in the field. The government’s policy document "IT i människans tjänst - en digital agenda för Sverige" as well as a series of interviews are analyzed with help of ideal typical descriptions of governance and government. The delimitation of the relevant documents would be natural since it is the latest document in the field and a comprehensive approach is presented. Equally natural is not the selection of actors, but these are either prominent in the area or outside to a large extent. The results show that governance is dominant both in the official policy documents and statements, and in stakeholders perceptions of the field. However, there are interesting differences between the government and stakeholder views. Judging by the stakeholders views, authoritative and hierarchical processes within the state are more prominent than official statements might suggest. Possibility of further research is to study the EU's policy or regional digital agendas.
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Cobb, George S. "The implications of second-generation digital reporting for corporate governance and accountability." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.590556.
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Digital Reporting has been defined as: "The electronic process of recording, processing and distribution of financial and other business reports" (lCAEW, 2004, p. 2). The ICAEW distinguish between two levels of digital reporting. The first-generation (Level 1) of digital reporting concentrated on the efficient dissemination of information via the Internet (ICAEW, 2004). The second-generation (Level 2) of digital reporting aims to standardise the framework and enhance the context of information provided to stakeholders in order to facilitate greater levels of interrogation of the underlying information across multiple platforms (lCAEW, 2004). eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), a mark-up language based on a subset of eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML), has emerged as the leading technical standard to facilitate this standardisation (Willis, 2003). The XBRL framework is currently being developed by a wide consortium of organisations and companies, including professional accountancy bodies, software houses and a number of large listed companies in the US and Europe (XBRL, 2007a). However, it is not yet known how useful the technology will be for financial reporting purposes and in the discharge of accountability to stakeholders. Therefore, this thesis sought to gain an insight into the development of digital reporting and XBRL from the perspective of three key stakeholder groups (auditors, preparers and users of financial reporting information). In particular, the focus of the research was on the ability of digital reporting to play a role in the development of accountability and corporate governance relationships. Currently there are very few adopters of XBRL, and as a result the level of engagement and research on this topic conducted to date is limited. However, the potential wide-scale adoption by organisations would have major implications for corporate governance mechanisms and external accountability relationships. Thus, before the take-up of this new technology was widespread, exploration of key issues associated with XBRL was vital and timely. This thesis therefore reports the results from a series of twenty five interviews with three key corporate stakeholder groups and the findings from an explanatory case study of one of the few adopters in order to outline the links between the extant normative theoretical literature and the current practices of digital reporting. The results suggest that: • The major drive of the technology will likely be from the regulators who can capitalise on the benefits from standardisation more rapidly than organisations. • The benefits found with regard to corporate governance mechanisms and accountability relationships are present, but only at the margin until further developments are made in the reporting technologies. • Companies are not being persuaded by the normative benefits or "Business Case" highlighted in the current XBRL literature and will require further evidence of real world benefits before a willingness to engage emerges. In summary, the knowledge of XBRL and its capabilities within organisations to make an informed decision was too limited and there is a need for research in this area to link the theoretical advantages outlined in the literature, which continues to grow, with the practice of organisations adopting digital reporting and XBRL.
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Ender, Linda. "Data Governance in Digital Platforms : A case analysis in the building sector." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185598.
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Data are often the foundation of digital innovation and are seen as a highly valuable asset for any organization. Many companies aim to put data at the core of their business, but struggle with regulating data in complex environments. Data governance becomes an integral part for data-driven business. However, only a minority of companies fully engage in data governance. Research also lacks knowledge about data governance in complex environments such as digital platforms. Therefore, this thesis examines the role of data governance in digital platforms, by researching the conceptual characteristics of platform data governance. The iterative taxonomy development process by Nickerson et al. (2013) has been used to classify the characteristics of platform data governance. The results are derived from existing literature and motivated by new insights from expert interviews as well as a case analysis of a real-life platform. The final taxonomy shows that the conceptual characteristics of platform data governance are based on the dimensions purpose, platform data, responsibilities, decision domains and compliance. The findings address challenges of data governance in inter organizational settings and help practitioners to define their own data governance. Additionally, the thesis highlights the potential for future research.
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Iacomussi, Sofia <1991>. "A conceptualisation of a governance model for biobanks in the digital society." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10458/1/Sofia_Iacomussi_Tesi.pdf.
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Biobanks are key infrastructures in data-driven biomedical research.
The counterpoint of this optimistic vision is the reality of biobank governance, which must address various ethical, legal and social issues, especially in terms of open consent, privacy and secondary uses which, if not sufficiently resolved, may undermine participants’ and society’s trust in biobanking. The effect of the digital paradigm on biomedical research has only accentuated these issues by adding new pressure for the data protection of biobank participants against the risks of covert discrimination, abuse of power against individuals and groups, and critical commercial uses. Moreover, the traditional research-ethics framework has been unable to keep pace with the transformative developments of the digital era, and has proven inadequate in protecting biobank participants and providing guidance for ethical practices. To this must be added the challenge of an increased tendency towards exploitation and the commercialisation of personal data in the field of biomedical research, which may undermine the altruistic and solidaristic values associated with biobank participation and risk losing alignment with societal interests in biobanking.
My research critically analyses, from a bioethical perspective, the challenges and the goals of biobank governance in data-driven biomedical research in order to understand the conditions for the implementation of a governance model that can foster biomedical research and innovation, while ensuring adequate protection for biobank participants and an alignment of biobank procedures and policies with society’s interests and expectations. The main outcome is a conceptualisation of a socially-oriented and participatory model of biobanks by proposing a new ethical framework that relies on the principles of transparency, data protection and participation to tackle the key challenges of biobanks in the digital age and that is well-suited to foster these goals.
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Aidanpää, Mathilda, and Mathilda Sjöberg. "Digital Transformation: Governance as a TransitionTool : A case study at a Swedish municipality." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296648.
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As society becomes increasingly digitalised, pressure is put on public organisations to keep up with technological developments. Thus, digital transformations, which is a strategic relocation of the business, have become essential for organisations. Digital transformations are associated with complexity and a high failure rate, partly due to organisational barriers and the necessity of structural changes and possessing several dynamic capabilities. Private organisations have led the way in the era of integrating technology with business, and public organisations have attempted to follow. As a result, governing inspired by private organisations have been developed for public organisations, namely new public management. However, this governing does not cover values essential for public organisations, e.g., public value, nor facilitating digital transformations. Governance that enables adaptation and responsiveness as well as creating public value is necessary, e.g., adaptive and agile governance. This thesis aims to investigate digital transformation in public organisations and the effect governing principles have on it. The study also explores the potential of adaptive governance and if digitalisation can enable municipalities to work with sustainability. To answer this, an exploratory study is conducted, which includes a case study, and a framework is constructed based on a literature review together with four in-depth interviews with scientists. The framework is then applied to the case study, consisting of 11 semi-structured interviews. The findings indicate that digital transformations of public organisations can be conducted without considering governing principles. However, governance can affect how successful the transformation is and what value creation it can bring. Using governance that does not facilitate the transformation could impact its success. Adaptive governance can solve many issues in municipal digital transformations, but may not solely be the solution. It emphasises learning and trial and-error and observes the transformation through an ecosystem perspective. However, the practical implications of it are limited as no methods exist. Thus, combinations with other governing principles may be required. Additionally, digitalisation cannot enable municipalities to achieve sustainability aims on its own. Instead, digital technologies are tools that the municipality can use to achieve sustainability. The study contributes to research by investigating the effect governing principles has on digital transformations of public organisations in a Swedish context, which previously was lacking. The framework can provide a guide and analysis tool for public organisation’s digital transformation, and shows potential to be applied in practice.När samhället blir alltmer digitaliserat pressas offentliga organisationer att hålla jämna steg med den tekniska utvecklingen. Således har digitala transformationer, som är en strategisk förflyttning av verksamheten, blivit väsentligt för organisationer. Digitala transformationer är förknippade med komplexitet och hög andel misslyckanden, delvis på grund av nödvändiga strukturella förändringar och innehav av flertalet dynamiska kapaciteter, såväl som organisatoriska hinder. Privata organisationer har lett vägen i att integrera teknik med verksamheten och offentliga organisationer har försökt följa med. Detta har resulterat i att styrningen av offentliga organisationer inspirerats av näringslivet, nämligen new public management. Denna styrning täcker dock inte värden som är viktiga för offentliga organisationer, t.ex. offentligt värde, eller underlättar digitala transformationer. Styrning som möjliggör anpassning och lyhördhet samt skapar offentligt värde är nödvändigt, exempelvis adaptiv och agil styrning. Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka digitala transformationer i offentlig sektor och vilken effekt styrande principer har på det. Studien undersöker också potentialen för adaptiv styrning och om digitalisering kan göra det möjligt för kommuner att arbeta med hållbarhet. För att svara på detta genomförs en undersökande studie, som inkluderar en fallstudie, och ett ramverk skapas baserat på en litteraturgenomgång tillsammans med fyra djupintervjuer med forskare. Ramverket tillämpas sedan på fallstudien, bestående av elvasemistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultaten tyder på att digitala transformationer av offentliga organisationerkan genomföras utan att ta hänsyn till styrande principer, men styrningen kan påverka hur optimal transformationen är och vilket värdeskapande den kan ge. Att använda styrning som inte underlättar transformationen kan påverka hur framgångsrik den är. Adaptiv styrning har förmågan att lösa många problem som finns i kommunala digitala transformationer, men är inte enskilt lösningen. Den betonar lärande och experimenterande samt observerar transformationen ur ett ekosystemsperspektiv. De praktiska implikationerna av den är dock begränsade, då den inte innehar specifika metoder. Således kan kombinationer med andra styrande principer krävas. Därtill medför inte digitalisering att kommuner uppnår hållbarhetsmål på egen hand. Istället bör digital teknik ses som verktyg som kommuner kan använda för att uppnå hållbarhet. Studien bidrar till forskning genom att undersöka vilken effekt styrande principer har på digital transformation inom offentliga organisationer ur ett svenskt perspektiv, vilket saknas i tidigare forskning. Ramverket kan tillhandahålla ett guide- och analysverktyg för offentliga organisationers digitala transformation och visar potential att kunna användas i praktiken.
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Westerberg, Sandra. "Public IT Governance for Digital Transformation : A grounded theory approach for model development." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-186696.
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Ziegler, Dustin P. "Foundations of a defense digital platform : business systems governance in the Department of Defense." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70826.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-155).
In 2010, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) spent more than $35 billion on information systems development and sustainment, with nearly $7 billion to defense business systems investments alone. It is not surprising given the scale of expenditure and complexity of the enterprise that its track record on business systems investments has not been great. Indeed, the DoD's investment management practices have been the target of many studies identifying critical concerns with how the taxpayers' dollars are spent. The get-well plan, according to these same studies, is to apply "industry best practices" to achieve the same results. Yet this view fails to adequately account for the underlying issues that give rise to these symptoms. Mistrust and confusion in governance decision structures, strategic goal misalignment, externally driven metrics that incentivize the wrong behavior, and a culture of guarding rather than sharing information were among the dominant challenges identified through stakeholder interviews. Cross-cutting issues included language barriers between the Services and Corporate DoD that impede knowledge integration and complicate performance measurement. These systemic foundational problems are deeply rooted in the nature of this public administration network and in the cultures of its strongly independent member institutions. Resolving these dysfunctional characteristics requires more than a transformation "playbook" of best practice initiatives. This research sets the trajectory for meaningful progress in defense business systems investment planning and management by outlining the fundamental changes that must occur, anchored by a more robust and transparent governance framework.
by Dustin P. Ziegler.
S.M.in Engineering and Management
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Nasir, Amn, Muqueet Shahzad, Sameer Anwar, and Saim Rashid. "Digital Governance." In ICTD '17: Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3136560.3136600.
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Bergsen, Pepijn, Carolina Caeiro, Harriet Moynihan, Marianne Schneider-Petsinger, and Isabella Wilkinson. Digital trade and digital technical standards. Royal Institute of International Affairs, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55317/9781784135133.
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There is increasing impetus for stronger cooperation between the US, EU and UK on digital technology governance. Drivers of this trend include the economic incentives arising from opportunities for digital trade; the ambition for digital technology governance to be underpinned by shared values, including support for a democratic, open and global internet; and the need to respond to geopolitical competition, especially from China. Two specific areas of governance in which there is concrete potential to collaborate, and in which policymakers have indicated significant ambitions to do so, are digital trade and digital technical standards. - To leverage strategic opportunities for digital trade, the US, EU and UK need to continue identifying and promoting principles based on shared values and agendas, and demonstrate joint leadership at the global level, including in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on e-commerce. - Policy actors in the US, EU and UK should work individually and collectively to build on the latest generation of digital trade agreements. This will help to promote closer alignment on digital rules and standards, and support the establishment of more up-to-date models for innovation and governance. - Collaborating on digital technical standards, particularly those underlying internet governance and emerging technologies, offers the US, EU and UK strategic opportunities to build a vision of digital technology governance rooted in multi-stakeholder participation and democratic values. This can provide a strong alternative to standards proposals such as China’s ‘New IP’ system. - Policy actors should seek to expand strategic cooperation on standards development among the US, EU and UK, among like-minded countries, and among states that are undecided on the direction of their technology governance, including in the Global South. They should also take practical steps to incorporate the views and expertise of the technology industry, the broader private sector, academia and civil society. By promoting best-practice governance models that are anticipatory, dynamic and flexible, transatlantic efforts for cooperation on digital regulation can better account for the rapid pace of technological change. Early evidence of this more forward-looking approach is emerging through the EU’s proposed regulation of digital services and artificial intelligence (AI), and in the UK’s proposed legislation to tackle online harms. The recently launched EU-US Trade and Technology Council is a particularly valuable platform for strengthening cooperation in this arena. But transatlantic efforts to promote a model of digital governance predicated on democratic values would stand an even greater chance of success if the council’s work were more connected to efforts by the UK and other leading democracies
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Marcelo, Alvin, Donna Medeiros, Susann Roth, and Pamela Wyatt. Transforming Health Systems Through Good Digital Health Governance. Asian Development Bank, February 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps189244-2.
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The economic development of Southeast Asia is increasingly dependent on establishing a cutting-edge digital infrastructure. In some segments of digital infrastructure, for example, data centre operations, the presence and strategy of the two nations’ tech companies in Southeast Asia has mainly been driven by market considerations. As for smart and safe city solutions, submarine internet cables, and 5G infrastructure, investment projects are linked to security concerns to a greater extent and are increasingly affected by the tech rivalry of the two great powers. The maze of geopolitical and business motivations and interests makes it more challenging for ASEAN nations to navigate the tech war and face the dual challenge of rapidly developing the digital infrastructure and avoiding taking sides in tech decoupling. The lack of global legislation on digital issues enables great tech powers to push their own data governance models. An intensifying clash between the US and China over data governance concepts would pose a risk to the evolution of adequate local legislation in the ASEAN region.
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Bera, Subhasis, Dil Rahut, and Yixin Yao. Digital Governance Pathways: Multidimensional Challenges in the Absence of a Scientific Foundation Are Not a Deterrent to Successful Implementation. Asian Development Bank Institute, March 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.56506/okjt9039.
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Bloom, Gerald, Priya Balasubramaniam, Anabel Marin, Erica Nelson, Evert-jan Quak, Lewis Husain, and Tom Barker. Towards Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage. Institute of Development Studies, June 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/cc.2023.005.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has re-emphasised the need to ensure equitable access to safe, effective and affordable health services. The very rapid shift to the use of smartphone apps and telephone consultations (telemedicine) has highlighted the potential impact of digital innovations on the capacity of health services to meet this need. It is time to take digital health seriously. In 2021, The Lancet and the Financial Times published a report by a commission of experts entitled Governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world. It describes the many ways that digital technologies are affecting health and access to health services (Kickbusch et al. 2021). The report emphasises the changing inter-relationships between the health and digital technology sectors and makes the case for effective governance of digital health. It outlines measures that can be taken to influence the speed and direction of change, with the aims of building trust and ensuring that the needs of poor and vulnerable people are met. Its focus is on global trends and global responses. This report complements that document by focusing on actions that LMICs can take to ensure that digital innovations contribute to their strategies for improving health and access to health services.
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Ihsan, Yilmaz, and Raja Ali M. Saleem. The nexus of religious populism and digital authoritarianism in Pakistan. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/pp0016.
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Pakistan has a turbulent political history. In the seven decades since its creation, the country has faced four military-led dictatorships and another two decades under indirect military rule. Given this political trend, authoritarianism is not a novel phenomenon in the country. Digital authoritarianism, however, is a relatively new domain of oppression. This paper looks at how a political party in power and the “establishment” (military elite and its civilian collaborators) have been increasing the control of digital mediums as well as weaponizing space. This dual control and usage allow for growing digital authoritarianism. Using the case study of Imran Khan’s government (2018-2022) and its collaboration with the military establishment in enforcing digital authoritarianism, this article uses four levels of an assessment of internet governance in Pakistan (whole network level, sub-network level, proxy level, and user level). In addition, the role of Khan’s political party’s Islamist populist outlook in contributing to authoritarianism is also discussed. A lot of censorship happens around ideas of protecting Islam and Pakistan’s Muslim identity. The review also finds that the establishment uses not only religion but also ultra-nationalism and fears of foreign attacks, primarily by “Hindu” India, as means to closely surveil and curb the rights of citizens which it deems not worthy of trust. Our results find that Pakistan’s digital space is highly oppressive where ideas of religion, ontological insecurity, and nationalism are weaponized to legitimize the state’s growing authoritarianism.
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O’Reilly, Jacqueline, and Rachel Verdin. Measuring the size, characteristics and consequences of digital work. Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20919/whfq8202.
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This working paper provides a summary assessment of the existing literature and data on digital forms of employment internationally. It illustrates the variability in how it is defined, how it is growing and what kind of risks are associated with these developments. Evaluation of these types of jobs is divided. On one hand, optimists point to the attractions and relative ease in finding employment on digital platforms; on the other hand, more critical perspectives argue that these employment contracts can result in exclusion from social protection systems. The evidence indicates that while overall a relatively small proportion of all employment digital work is growing, both on platforms as well as adoption amongst more traditional companies. The characteristics of digital workers can vary by region and occupation. Overall, they tend to be predominantly younger and more likely male, with a growing number of women albeit in particular occupations. Skills and earnings levels vary but the key issues of disputes is around pay, conditions and employment status. The consequences of this form of work for those with lower skilled digital employment can undermine their social citizenship: they lack comparable employment rights, or when unemployed entitlement to adequate social protection. The potential polarisation effects of digital exclusion and deficits will severely hamper the wider benefits of transparency offered by these technologies. During the pandemic these trends have become more apparent. The imbalance of bargaining power and regulatory governance to bridge gaps in citizenship entitlements undermines the collective potential of policy makers and trade unions to address these challenges. Nevertheless, there is emerging evidence of innovative challenges and contestation of these gaps by both union organisations and national regulators attempts to adapt social protection
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Yilmaz, Ihsan, Raja M. Ali Saleem, Mahmoud Pargoo, Syaza Shukri, Idznursham Ismail, and Kainat Shakil. Religious Populism, Cyberspace and Digital Authoritarianism in Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey. European Center for Populism Studies, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/5jchdy.
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Turkey, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia span one of the longest continuously inhabited regions of the world. Centuries of cultural infusion have ensured these societies are highly heterogeneous. As plural polities, they are ripe for the kind of freedoms that liberal democracy can guarantee. However, despite having multi-party electoral systems, these countries have recently moved toward populist authoritarianism. Populism —once considered a distinctively Latin American problem that only seldom reared its head in other parts of the world— has now found a home in almost every corner of the planet. Moreover, it has latched on to religion, which, as history reminds us, has an unparalleled power to mobilize crowds. This report explores the unique nexus between faith and populism in our era and offers an insight into how cyberspace and offline politics have become highly intertwined to create a hyper-reality in which socio-political events are taking place. The report focuses, in particular, on the role of religious populism in digital space as a catalyst for undemocratic politics in the five Asian countries we have selected as our case studies. The focus on the West Asian and South Asian cases is an opportunity to examine authoritarian religious populists in power, whereas the East Asian countries showcase powerful authoritarian religious populist forces outside parliament. This report compares internet governance in each of these countries under three categories: obstacles to access, limits on content, and violations of user rights. These are the digital toolkits that authorities use to govern digital space. Our case selection and research focus have allowed us to undertake a comparative analysis of different types of online restrictions in these countries that constrain space foropposition and democratic voices while simultaneously making room for authoritarian religious populist narratives to arise and flourish. The report finds that surveillance, censorship, disinformation campaigns, internet shutdowns, and cyber-attacks—along with targeted arrests and violence spreading from digital space—are common features of digital authoritarianism. In each case, it is also found that religious populist forces co-opt political actors in their control of cyberspace. The situational analysis from five countries indicates that religion’s role in digital authoritarianism is quite evident, adding to the layer of nationalism. Most of the leaders in power use religious justifications for curbs on the internet. Religious leaders support these laws as a means to restrict “moral ills” such as blasphemy, pornography, and the like. This evident “religious populism” seems to be a major driver of policy changes that are limiting civil liberties in the name of “the people.” In the end, the reasons for restricting digital space are not purely religious but draw on religious themes with populist language in a mixed and hybrid fashion. Some common themes found in all the case studies shed light on the role of digital space in shaping politics and society offline and vice versa. The key findings of our survey are as follows: The future of (especially) fragile democracies is highly intertwined with digital space. There is an undeniable nexus between faith and populism which offers an insight into how cyberspace and politics offline have become highly intertwined. Religion and politics have merged in these five countries to shape cyber governance. The cyber governance policies of populist rulers mirror their undemocratic, repressive, populist, and authoritarian policies offline. As a result, populist authoritarianism in the non-digital world has increasingly come to colonize cyberspace, and events online are more and more playing a role in shaping politics offline. “Morality” is a common theme used to justify the need for increasingly draconian digital laws and the active monopolization of cyberspace by government actors. Islamist and Hindutva trolls feel an unprecedented sense of cyber empowerment, hurling abuse without physically seeing the consequences or experiencing the emotional and psychological damage inflicted on their victims.
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Yilmaz, Ihsan, Raja M. Ali Saleem, Mahmoud Pargoo, Syaza Shukri, Idznursham Ismail, and Kainat Shakil. Religious Populism, Cyberspace and Digital Authoritarianism in Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/rp0001.
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Turkey, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia span one of the longest continuously inhabited regions of the world. Centuries of cultural infusion have ensured these societies are highly heterogeneous. As plural polities, they are ripe for the kind of freedoms that liberal democracy can guarantee. However, despite having multi-party electoral systems, these countries have recently moved toward populist authoritarianism. Populism —once considered a distinctively Latin American problem that only seldom reared its head in other parts of the world— has now found a home in almost every corner of the planet. Moreover, it has latched on to religion, which, as history reminds us, has an unparalleled power to mobilize crowds. This report explores the unique nexus between faith and populism in our era and offers an insight into how cyberspace and offline politics have become highly intertwined to create a hyper-reality in which socio-political events are taking place. The report focuses, in particular, on the role of religious populism in digital space as a catalyst for undemocratic politics in the five Asian countries we have selected as our case studies. The focus on the West Asian and South Asian cases is an opportunity to examine authoritarian religious populists in power, whereas the East Asian countries showcase powerful authoritarian religious populist forces outside parliament. This report compares internet governance in each of these countries under three categories: obstacles to access, limits on content, and violations of user rights. These are the digital toolkits that authorities use to govern digital space. Our case selection and research focus have allowed us to undertake a comparative analysis of different types of online restrictions in these countries that constrain space foropposition and democratic voices while simultaneously making room for authoritarian religious populist narratives to arise and flourish. The report finds that surveillance, censorship, disinformation campaigns, internet shutdowns, and cyber-attacks—along with targeted arrests and violence spreading from digital space—are common features of digital authoritarianism. In each case, it is also found that religious populist forces co-opt political actors in their control of cyberspace. The situational analysis from five countries indicates that religion’s role in digital authoritarianism is quite evident, adding to the layer of nationalism. Most of the leaders in power use religious justifications for curbs on the internet. Religious leaders support these laws as a means to restrict “moral ills” such as blasphemy, pornography, and the like. This evident “religious populism” seems to be a major driver of policy changes that are limiting civil liberties in the name of “the people.” In the end, the reasons for restricting digital space are not purely religious but draw on religious themes with populist language in a mixed and hybrid fashion. Some common themes found in all the case studies shed light on the role of digital space in shaping politics and society offline and vice versa. The key findings of our survey are as follows: The future of (especially) fragile democracies is highly intertwined with digital space. There is an undeniable nexus between faith and populism which offers an insight into how cyberspace and politics offline have become highly intertwined. Religion and politics have merged in these five countries to shape cyber governance. The cyber governance policies of populist rulers mirror their undemocratic, repressive, populist, and authoritarian policies offline. As a result, populist authoritarianism in the non-digital world has increasingly come to colonize cyberspace, and events online are more and more playing a role in shaping politics offline. “Morality” is a common theme used to justify the need for increasingly draconian digital laws and the active monopolization of cyberspace by government actors. Islamist and Hindutva trolls feel an unprecedented sense of cyber empowerment, hurling abuse without physically seeing the consequences or experiencing the emotional and psychological damage inflicted on their victims.