This paper considers the attributes of community portals; questions the sustainability of such portals, and suggests a likely direction that portal evolution may take. The context is that of UK local government portals, over the period from 1999-2004.Research has been undertaken to investigate the extent to which locally deployed UK community portals are capable of supporting citizen services i...

A fundamental aspect of knowledge management is capturing knowledge and expertise created by knowledge workers as they go about their work and making it available to a larger community of colleagues. Technology can support these goals, and knowledge portals have emerged as a key tool for supporting knowledge work. Knowledge portals are single-point-access software systems intended to provide ea...

Research portals are websites that present information about certain research activities and their corresponding results in a structured manner. Institutions like universities, businesses, or governmental organizations use them as knowledge base to identify and communicate “who researches on what” or “where can the relevant information, people, or funds be found”. Furthermore, such portals are ...

The literature about portals or gateways exists in huge volume. However, only a limited number of articles have addressed the topic of knowledge portals applying various concepts of arrangement to organizing the information on the portals. Likewise, not many authors have written about knowledge portals. So, this study helps to understand one such knowledge portal and its features, coverage of s...

Open data are considered an essential resource for governments, businesses, and citizens. In that context, open portals have potential creating enormous economic growth. should allow the reuse of data, ensure efficiency transmission, enable professional initiatives based on reuse. However, there inefficient because they do not their data. The objective this work is to define identify offer poss...

BACKGROUND The United States government is encouraging physicians to adopt patient portals-secure websites that allow patients to access their health information. For patient portals to recognize their full potential and improve patient care, health care providers' acceptance and encouragement of their use will be essential. However, little is known about provider concerns or views of patient p...

The authors of this paper explore the nature, goal, functions and benefits of electronic trade facilitation and propose a model describing the evolution of various trade portals at the national, regional and global levels. The model is supported by a survey of over 100 cases of trade portals. Based on the proposed model, the authors make predictions regarding the future development of national,...

BACKGROUND In 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the United States launched the second stage of its Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, providing financial incentives to providers to meaningfully use their electronic health records to engage patients online. Patient portals are electronic means to engage patients by enabling secure access to personal medical rec...