@article{Garten, author = {Garten, Felix}, title = {The challenge of Chinese digital payment networks}, series = {9Dashline}, journal = {9Dashline}, language = {en} } @article{CowlsDariusSantistevanetal., author = {Cowls, Josh and Darius, Philipp and Santistevan, Dominiquo and Schramm, Moritz}, title = {Constitutional metaphors: Facebook's "supreme court" and the legitimation of platform governance}, series = {New Media and Society}, journal = {New Media and Society}, doi = {10.1177/14614448221085559}, abstract = {Who governs—and who should govern—online communication? Social media companies, international organizations, users, or the state? And by what means? A range of rhetorical devices have been used to simplify the complexities associated with the governance of online platforms. This includes "constitutional metaphors": metaphorical allusions to traditional political concepts such as statehood, democracy, and constitutionalism. Here, we empirically trace the ascent of a powerful constitutional metaphor currently employed in the news media discourse on platform governance: characterizations of Facebook's Oversight Board (OB) as a "supreme court." We investigate the metaphor's descriptive suitability and question its normative and political ramifications. We argue that uncritical characterizations of the OB as Facebook's "supreme court" obscure its true scope and purpose. In addition, we argue that appropriating the socio-cultural symbolism and hence political legitimacy of a supreme court and mapping it onto a different type of actor poses a threat to responsible platform governance.}, language = {en} } @article{CingolaniHildebrandt, author = {Cingolani, Luciana and Hildebrandt, Tim}, title = {Incentive Structures for the Adoption of Crowdsourcing in Public Policy: A Bureaucratic Politics Model}, series = {Sustainability}, volume = {14}, journal = {Sustainability}, number = {20}, doi = {10.3390/su142012982}, abstract = {Collective intelligence paradigms have been increasingly embraced by the public sector as a way to address complex policy challenges. The field is limited, however, by our little, comparative understanding of the political economy factors that create incentives around the adoption of certain types of collective intelligence over others in different organizational settings. This article uses a typology of citizen-sourced open innovation models based on the work of Daren Brabham as well as insights from Elinor Ostrom and Archon Fung, in order to produce a theoretical model of the determinants of crowdsourcing adoption decisions in the public sector. The model derives a political economy analysis that matches various administrative scenarios to different collective intelligence modalities and developments. The insights are illustrated through a number of crowdsourcing initiatives and provide important lessons to practitioners designing such collective challenges.}, language = {en} } @techreport{ToomereKamalanathanFreudenthaletal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Toomere, Taavi and Kamalanathan, Sujani and Freudenthal, Margus and Valdma, Sandhra-Mirella and McBride, Keegan}, title = {Digital Government Interoperability Platform Reference Architecture}, series = {Cybernetica research report D-2-384}, journal = {Cybernetica research report D-2-384}, publisher = {Cybernetica AS}, address = {Tallinn, Estonia}, pages = {30}, abstract = {Interoperability is a core component for any successful governmental digitalization initiative. Though there are numerous ways to build and enable this interoperability, it is possible to identify commonly occurring building blocks. This short report identifies these building blocks, maps them to relevant and common policy goals, and presents a reference architecture model for a digital government interoperability platform. To identify the relevant components of this architecture, desk research was conducted to identify common policy goals associated with interoperability, a workshop was conducted and a comprehensive systematic and comparative study was conducted that analyzed digital government interoperability platforms in twenty countries. The results of this report represent one of the most comprehensive studies to date on digital government interoperability and should, therefore, be of high interest for governmental practitioners, industry, and academics involved with interoperability studies and initiatives.}, language = {en} } @article{MiasayedavaMcBrideTuhtan, author = {Miasayedava, Lizaveta and McBride, Keegan and Tuhtan, Jeffrey Andrew}, title = {Automated environmental compliance monitoring of rivers with IoT and open government data}, series = {Journal of Environmental Management}, volume = {303}, journal = {Journal of Environmental Management}, number = {114283}, doi = {10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114283}, abstract = {Environmental monitoring of rivers is a cornerstone of the European Union's Water Framework Directive. It requires the estimation and reporting of environmental flows in rivers whose characteristics vary widely across the EU member states. This variability has resulted in a fragmentation of estimation and reporting methods for environmental flows and is exhibited by the myriad of regulatory guidelines and estimation procedures. To standardise and systematically evaluate environmental flows at the pan-European scale, we propose to formalise the estimation procedures through automation by reusing existing river monitoring resources. In this work, we explore how sensor-generated hydrological open government data can be repurposed to automate the estimation and monitoring of river environmental flows. In contrast to existing environmental flows estimation methods, we propose a scalable IoT-based architecture and implement its cloud-layer web service. The major contribution of this work is the demonstration of an automated environmental flows system based on open river monitoring data routinely collected by national authorities. Moreover, the proposed system adds value to existing environmental monitoring data, reduces development and operational costs, facilitates streamlining of environmental compliance and allows for any authority with similar data to reuse or scale it with new data and methods. We critically discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with open government data, including its quality. Finally, we demonstrate the proposed system using the Estonian national river monitoring network and define further research directions.}, language = {en} } @incollection{QuintarelliMisuracaDeBiaseetal., author = {Quintarelli, Stefano and Misuraca, Gianluca and De Biase, Luca and McBride, Keegan}, title = {The Information Society and the Future of Digital Well-being}, series = {Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report 2022}, booktitle = {Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report 2022}, publisher = {Sustainable Development Solutions Network}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-7348080-3-2}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {115 -- 133}, language = {en} } @incollection{McBrideMisnikovDraheim, author = {McBride, Keegan and Misnikov, Yuri and Draheim, Dirk}, title = {Discussing the foundations for interpretivist digital government research}, series = {Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance and Transformation. Concepts, Approaches and Challenges}, booktitle = {Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance and Transformation. Concepts, Approaches and Challenges}, editor = {Charalabidis, Yannis and Flak, Leif Skiftenes and Viale Pereira, Gabriela}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-92945-9}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-92945-9_6}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {121 -- 147}, abstract = {As the research domain of digital government continues to develop as an important body of scholarly research, it is important to understand the core theoretical and philosophical basis of the discipline. Yet, in the domain of digital government, such an understanding does not exist. Therefore, there is currently a need for critical discussion about the concrete role of research philosophy in digital government research. This paper makes a first step in driving such a discussion by presenting arguments and discussion on the relevance of an interpretivist research philosophy for the domain of digital government. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of an interpretivist ontology and epistemology for digital government, discusses relevant theories and methods, and concludes with an overview of what is essential for conducting and carrying out interpretivist digital government research. This paper's contributions represent one of the first concentrated efforts to lay out initial foundations for the role of interpretivism, and research philosophy more generally, for digital government research.}, language = {en} } @incollection{ShahYahiaMcBrideetal., author = {Shah, Syed Attique and Yahia, Sadok Ben and McBride, Keegan and Jamil, Akhtar and Draheim, Dirk}, title = {Twitter Streaming Data Analytics for Disaster Alerts}, series = {2021 2nd International Informatics and Software Engineering Conference (IISEC)}, booktitle = {2021 2nd International Informatics and Software Engineering Conference (IISEC)}, publisher = {IEEE}, isbn = {978-1-6654-0759-5}, doi = {10.1109/IISEC54230.2021.9672370}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {1 -- 6}, abstract = {In today's world, disasters, both natural and manmade, are becoming increasingly frequent, and new solutions are of a compelling need to provide and disseminate information about these disasters to the public and concerned authorities in an effective and efficient manner. One of the most frequently used ways for information dissemination today is through social media, and when it comes to real-time information, Twitter is often the channel of choice. Thus, this paper discusses how Big Data Analytics (BDA) can take advantage of information streaming from Twitter to generate alerts and provide information in real-time on ongoing disasters. The paper proposes TAGS (Twitter Alert Generation System), a novel solution for collecting and analyzing social media streaming data in realtime and subsequently issue warnings related to ongoing disasters using a combination of Hadoop and Spark frameworks. The paper tests and evaluates the proposed solution using Twitter data from the 2018 earthquake in Palu City, Sulawesi, Indonesia. The proposed architecture was able to issue alert messages on various disaster scenarios and identify critical information that can be utilized for further analysis. Moreover, the performance of the proposed solution is assessed with respect to processing time and throughput that shows reliable system efficiency.}, language = {en} } @periodical{OPUS4-4778, title = {Special Issue on Tech Companies and Public Interest}, series = {Information, Communication \& Society}, volume = {26}, journal = {Information, Communication \& Society}, number = {1}, editor = {Stockmann, Daniela and Bennett, Lance}, language = {en} } @article{RackwitzPalaric, author = {Rackwitz, Maike and Palaric, Enora}, title = {A shift towards collaboration? Evidence from national digitalisation strategies}, series = {dms - der moderne staat - Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Public Policy, Recht und Management}, volume = {16}, journal = {dms - der moderne staat - Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Public Policy, Recht und Management}, number = {1-2023}, doi = {10.3224/dms.vXiX.273808}, pages = {1 -- 20}, abstract = {This paper seeks to better understand the paradigm shift towards 'networked governance' in digitalisation discourse. Little is known about the link between digitalisation reforms and the main reform paradigms in public management studies. By analysing French and German national digitalisation strategies over time, we find that neo-Weberian, new public management, and networked governance discourses co-exist within the digital era, although networked governance rhetoric is increasingly influential. However, a closer examination reveals that this shift in discourse is unrelated to the increased integration of nonstate actors in actual decision-making and service delivery.}, language = {en} }