Public accountability ICT support: A detailed account of public accountability process and tasks

Rui Pedro Lourenço, Suzanne Piotrowski, Alex Ingrams

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Abstract

A key objective of open government programs is to promote public accountability by using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to release data on the internal working of public agencies. However, it is not clear how actual accountability (such as sanctions or rewards) may be achieved from the data disclosed. Nor it is clear how ICT in general should support it. To better understand how ICT can support open data initiated accountability processes in achieving their goal, this paper considers the three phases (information, discussion, and consequences) usually used to describe such processes. Defining ICT support for these major phases is a difficult effort, since each phase encompasses different tasks and support requirements. This paper aims to address this problem by providing a detailed account of the tasks associated with the whole public accountability process. This may be used by those responsible for open government programs to design and deploy comprehensive ICT support platforms using a task-technology fit perspective.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationElectronic Government - 14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2015, Proceedings
EditorsEfthimios Tambouris, Peter Parycek, Hans Jochen Scholl, Konstantinos Tarabanis, Bram Klievink, Marijn Janssen, Mila Gasco, Ida Lindgren, Maria A. Wimmer
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages105-117
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319224787
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2015 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: Aug 30 2015Sep 2 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9248
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2015
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period8/30/159/2/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

Keywords

  • Accountability
  • ICT
  • Open government
  • Task-technology fit

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