This paper considers electronic governmental activities f rom a business perspective resulting in a so-called governmental value chain model. This model aims to support practitioners f o r better understanding and realisation of joint organisational and information system innovations in the public sector. It consists of a legislative, administrative and juridical function embracing three fields...

A number of governments have started to publish their statistical data online. Some of them are adhering to Linked Data principles, others are using other standards which often can be transformed in order to be published as Linked Data. RDF vocabularies, such as SCOVO (Statistical Core Vocabulary) are being used for publishing the data. Many of the current translations of the statistical data a...

Accreditation, as an approach to quality assurance and improvement, has a hundred-year history in the United States. Other countries have started to establish such systems in the past twenty years. Recently, we have witnessed numerous discussions and some practical steps toward establishing accreditation systems in Iran. A major practical challenge for such newer accreditation systems is that...