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What should government agencies do with information that is relevant for citizens?

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dg.o '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research

Pages 153 - 161

Published: 18 May 2008 Publication History

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New technological opportunities and increasing demands make it imperative that government agencies make the information they gather available to citizens. How should they go about this? This paper explores the information strategies open to the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management in the Netherlands. This agency gathers traffic information which is useful for citizens when they want to avoid traffic jams. Presently, the agency sells information to intermediaries. The agency wanted to release the information through its own website but a court ruling prohibited this. This paper reviews other strategies and concludes that an 'Intel inside' strategy may be a viable option in view of the consequences for effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1823854.1823868

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dg.o '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research

May 2008

488 pages

ISBN:9781605580999

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Monique Charbonneau
CEFRIO
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Lester Diamond
US Social Security Administration
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University of Pittsburgh
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Marijn Janssen,
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Ganoe CRobinson HHorning MXie XCarroll JLiao L(2010)Mobile awareness and participation in community-oriented activitiesProceedings of the 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application10.1145/1823854.1823868(1-8)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1823854.1823868

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