Feature Integration for Geospatial Information: A Review and Outlook

Agouris, Peggy; Croitoru, Arie; Stefanidis, Anthony

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-71611-4_18

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“…But these capabilities have also been implemented by federal and state governments in the U.S., supplying useful tools and information for citizens, such as the Highway Division of Ohio's Public Safety Department, which started to mashup car crash fatalities with Google maps so that residents can view where crashes take place and assess dangers associated with their own addresses [13,45]. In particular, with the increased accessibility of spatial data, government agencies are expected to utilize automated spatiotemporal information more effectively [1].…”

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Towards a social network e-government agenda?

Halpern

Rozaidi

2012

Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

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Inspired by the reported use of Web 2.0-based applications to stir national revolutions in the Arab World, and the potential of this technology to increase transparency and engage citizens in decision-making processes as documented by research in egovernment, this study explores to what extent Arab League nations are using "democratic" features in their government websites and how citizens have responded to these initiatives. It does this by comparing (1) the information access and opportunities for participation offered in their portals with non-Arab countries, (2) and the traffic to governmental websites and number of citizens (viewers, fans, followers) engaged by their social media applications. For this purpose, 160 websites from 82 different countries were examined. Results show that although non-Arab countries allow users to get access to more information and present more social media applications with a higher number of citizens participating on them as viewers, fans, and followers, surprisingly no differences were found in terms of participatory features and local traffic rank in governmental websites. Six countries were selected as case studies to lend evidence to the results.

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