The Tuscany’s Observatory of Research and Innovation portal is an instrument to promote more transparent and inclusive governance in the region. We show its interactive dashboard and underlying SPARQL endpoint, powered by SIRIS Academic’s UNiCS platform, which integrates Open Data on the Higher Education & Research field, following the Ontology-Based Data Access approach.

With the increasing dependence of enterprises on IT, and with the widely spreading use of e-business, IT governance is attracting increasing worldwide attention. A proper IT governance would promote enterprise performance through intelligent and efficient utilization of IT. In addition, standard IT governance practices would provide a suitable open environment for e-business that provides compa...

The Galapagos Marine Reserve is one of the most recognized marine protected areas in the world, due mainly to its unique natural features. Little is known, however, about its social counterpart. This research aims to explore the Galapagos Marine Reserve governance by following the governability assessment framework, which is based on the interactive governance perspective. We claim that improve...

Citizens in modern societies demand quality public services. People like to participate and collaborate in local governments by means of suggestions and complaints submission. Administrative procedures have arrived to the Web and citizens can save a lot of time because of this new situation. Not only citizens need to save time, but also civil servants do. The system we suggest in this paper sup...

Cloud computing needs end-user customisation and personalisation of multi-tenant cloud service offerings. Particularly, QoS and governance policy management and monitoring is needed. We propose a user-customisable policy definition solution that can be enforced in multitenant cloud offerings through automated instrumentation and monitoring. Service processes run by cloud and SaaS providers can ...

Setting up of rural telecentres, popularly referred to as Common Service Centres (CSCs), are considered one of the initial forerunners of rural e-Governance initiatives under the Government of India’s National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). CSCs are implemented on public-private partnership (PPP) — where State governments play a major role in facilitating the establishment of CSCs and investments ar...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is an emerging era of present decade and playing a vital role for the advancement of our global society. As the popularity of ICT enabled application is increasing E-Governance has been established as a revolution not only in developed country but also in developing nations. E-Governance is a way to achieve good governance through ICT in order to h...

Worldwide water governance failures undermine effective water management under uncertainty and change. Overcoming these failures requires employing more adaptive, resilient water management approaches; yet, while scholars have advance theory of what adaptive, resilient approaches should be, there is little empirical evidence to support those normative propositions. To fill this gap, we reviewed...

BACKGROUND Corruption in the health sector can hurt health outcomes. Improving good governance can in turn help prevent health-related corruption. We understand good governance as having the following characteristics: it is consensus-oriented, accountable, transparent, responsive, equitable and inclusive, effective and efficient, follows the rule of law, is participatory and should in theory be...