Title
Flexible information infrastructures in Dutch E-Government collaboration arrangements: Experiences and policy implications
Abstract
How can the flexibility of an information architecture in E-Government collaboration arrangements – defined as a set of multi-rational agreements – be achieved, if one acknowledges the fact that the use of ICT may automate the status quo between organizations which work together in a policy chain? Research shows that flexibility cannot be achieved by only looking at technological requirements and agreements. Other agreements should be considered which express multiple (political, legal and economic) design rationalities and values. Moreover, flexibility is also influenced by the structure and dynamics of the power and trustworthiness of the relationships between the organizations involved. This implies that E-Government policies should focus not only on the technical aspects of information exchange infrastructures, but on the politics of collaboration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.giq.2007.09.010
Government Information Quarterly
Keywords
Field
DocType
E-Government,Infrastructure policies,Infrastructure flexibility,Interoperability,Information politics
Economics,Status quo,Public relations,Interoperability,Information architecture,Information exchange,Information and Communications Technology,Public sector,Politics,Information infrastructure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
1
0740-624X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.87
4
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Victor Bekkers121116.97