The recent policy and regulatory initiatives of the EU, such as Digital Single Market Strategy, Single Digital Gateway, European Interoperability Framework and eIDAS, identify the need for digital cross-border integration in the EU. The achievement of the digital single market within the EU is challenging governments at all levels to transform or update their governance systems in order to establish the cross-border e-governance. The existing stage models in the e-Government literature, do not address the cross-border integration in the evolution phase of the e-Government. The heterogeneity and the legacy systems of the cross-border data exchange infrastructures hinders the process of seamless cross-border data exchange. This heterogeneity of cross-border data exchange infrastructures and complexity of the cross-border integration in the EU requires high level of interoperability in the legal, organisational, technical and semantic environment. Therefore, we explore the cross-border data infrastructures and its state of play in the EU by following the predominant framework that ensures the interoperability of the digital public services, EIF. We found that the most successful approach for cross-border e-governance and the cross-border integration might be the federated approach.
The evaluation and assessment of project results and their impact are still a recurring challenge in the digital government discipline. Many technologically driven projects or products have faced challenges, where the technology is advanced, but the market adoption and user acceptance are still lacking. To counter these challenges, this paper presents a transdisciplinary evaluation framework and how it could be applied. The foundation for the evaluation framework was a literature review on the most recent and relevant academic publications on transdisciplinary evaluations, which was narrowed down by using selected relevant search terms. This theoretical background was enhanced by a series of practical workshops to validate the findings. By using a transdisciplinary approach, this paper presents a transdisciplinary evaluation framework that enhances the evaluation process of project results in the digital government discipline with six pillars to reflect (1) the real word context, (2) interdisciplinary research, (3) going beyond science, (4) interaction (5) integration, and (6) relevance. Alongside these pillars, dimensions of measurement for the evaluation are also presented and elaborated on. While this evaluation framework could be adopted for many types of projects or products, this paper showcases how it is applied for an international digital government pilot research project throughout its development process. It presents the methodology and process used in establishing the evaluation framework, the evaluation framework itself, and a short discussion.
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