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Government innovation through social media

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This introductory article interrogates the role of social media in the basic areas of e-government: government information flows and the availability of government information; the use of information technology to create and provide innovative government services; and the increasing importance of information policies and information technologies for democratic practices.
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This article is published in Government Information Quarterly.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 379 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & Government.

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Conceptualizing smartness in government: An integrative and multi-dimensional view

TL;DR: It is argued that smartness should be conceptualized in a broad and multifaceted way and serves as a foundation to understand and measure smartness in government and provides guidelines for the comprehensive development of smart governments.
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Being smart: Emerging technologies and innovation in the public sector

TL;DR: This introductory paper provides readers with ways to think about smart government and summarizes findings from twelve articles included in this special issue, which contributes to understanding governance structures, technical infrastructures, and other requirements geared toward supporting the operations of smarter governments around the world.
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Smart governance in the context of smart cities: A literature review

TL;DR: This paper coins a definition of ‘smart city governance’ and contributes to developing a framework for building new, smart governance models addressing the challenges of the digital society, collaborative governance, information sharing, citizen engagement, transparency and openness.
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Using social media to enhance citizen engagement with local government: Twitter or Facebook?

TL;DR: Analysis of the various forms of social media used by citizens in their relations with Spanish local government to determine which of these achieves the strongest degree of commitment shows that Facebook is preferred to Twitter as a means of participating in local government issues.
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Decision Support for Forest Management

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach for forest management based on fuzzy set theory and fuzzy additive weighting, and evaluate the performance of different voting strategies. But they do not consider the impact of the number of voters on the outcome.
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Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an extension to the structurational perspective on technology that develops a practice lens to examine how people, as they interact with a technology in their ongoing practices, enact structures which shape their emergent and situated use of that technology.
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Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations

TL;DR: The Foundations of Organization Design as mentioned in this paper are: 1. Designing Individual Positions. 2. Design as Configuration. 3. Fleshing Out the Superstructure. 4. Fitting Design to Situation. 5. Untangling Decentralization.
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Using ICTs to create a culture of transparency: E-government and social media as openness and anti-corruption tools for societies

TL;DR: The potential impacts of information and ICTs – especially e-government and social media – on cultural attitudes about transparency are explored.
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Enterprise 2.0: the dawn of emergent collaboration

TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors propose a paradigm that highlights the salient characteristics of these new technologies, which they refer to as SLATES (search, links, authoring, tags, extensions, signals).
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From e-government to we-government: Defining a typology for citizen coproduction in the age of social media

TL;DR: A unified typology is proposed to support systematic analysis based on the overarching categories of “Citizen Sourcing,” “Government as a Platform,’ and “Do-It-Yourself Government” to demonstrate its use in leading U.S. government implementations.
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