Kommunikationssicherheit ist eine wesentliche Anforderung für die Erbringung von E-Government-Dienstleistungen. Kryptographische Technologien nehmen dabei eine Schlüsselrolle ein. Die Virtuelle Poststelle bietet diese Verfahren in serverbasierter Form einheitlich für alle Kommunikationskanäle an. Durch den modularen Aufbau erleichtert diese Basiskomponente die Integration von Fachund Kommunikat...

BACKGROUND The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in public-non-governmental organisation (NGO) partnerships in the health sector of many low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) as a means of improving the public's health. However, little research has focused to date on the nature, facilitators and barriers of these partnerships. METHODS In-depth qualitative interviews were cond...

This paper describes an algorithm for detecting empty nodes in the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993), finding their antecedents, and assigning them function tags, without access to lexical information such as valency. Unlike previous approaches to this task, the current method is not corpus-based, but rather makes use of the principles of early Government-Binding theory (Chomsky, 1981), the s...

Van Creveld begins his analysis by distinguishing between governments and states. In his view (1999, p. 1): “The state ... is an abstract entity which can be neither seen, nor heard, nor touched. This entity is not identical with either the rulers or the ruled; neither President Clinton, nor citizen Smith, nor even an assembly of all the citizens acting in common can claim that they are the sta...

Die öffentliche Verwaltung unterliegt fortwährend einem starken Veränderungsdruck, der sich im Zuge der gesellschaftlichen Digitalisierung mehr und mehr im Hinblick auf die Einführung und Nutzung von IT manifestiert. Diese Entwicklung führt zu veränderten Anforderungen an die Aufgaben, Rollen und Kompetenzen der Verwaltungsmitarbeiter. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt auf, dass Rollenbilder in Bez...

Der Nationale Normenkontrollrat (NKR) unterstützt in Deutschland die Bundesregierung im Gesetzgebungsverfahren bei der Vermeidung und Reduzierung von Gesetzesfolgekosten. Die Erfahrungen aus der Arbeit des NKR machten deutlich, dass Entlastungen der von einer Regelung Betroffenen durch E-Government erzielt werden können. Dazu ist es notwendig, dass ausgehend vom Gesetzestext eine prozessorienti...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which governments build social media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) into e-government transparency initiatives, to promote collaboration with members of the public and the ways in members of the public are able to employ the same social media to monitor government activities. Design/methodology/approach – This ...

Higher education institutions around the world are taking on more responsibility for their own future planning. As a result, they need to further strengthen their capacity for strategic performance. The narrow field of strategic planning is comprised of three steps: first the changing demands of the environment (economy, society, policy, research, etc.) are analyzed against the institution’s in...

What difference does e-government make to the capacity of governments to interact with citizens? How does it affect government’s place in social and informational networks the ‘nodality’ of contemporary government? What is the structure of ‘government on the web’ and how do citizens experience government on-line? This paper uses methods from computer science (particularly webmetrics) and politi...

Several recent efforts to improve budget forecasting techniques have emphasized the uncertainties inherent in projections of economic behavior and demography. Previous attempts to present stochastic budget projections for the U.S. have successfully incorporated sources of long-run uncertainty but have not attempted to model business cycle fluctuations realistically. While perhaps reasonably acc...