Investigating the Landscape in National Interoperability Frameworks

Abstract

Openness, accountability, and transparency have attracted researchers’ and practitioners’ interest as open data and citizen engagement initiatives try to capitalize the wisdom of crowds for better governance, policy making, or even service provision. In this context, interoperability between public organizations, citizens, and enterprises seems to remain the center of interest in the public sector and national interoperability frameworks are continually revised and expanded across the globe in an effort to support the increasing need for seamless exchange of information. This paper outlines the current landscape in eGovernment interoperability, analyzing and comparing frameworks that have reached a certain degree of maturity. Their strengths and weaknesses at conceptual and implementation level are discussed together with directions for reaching consensus and aligning interoperability guidelines at a country and cross-country level.

Environmental Turbulence and Complexity and the Optimal Degree of Internal Open Innovation for MNCs

“…To some degree, complexity and dynamism are interwoven (Aldrich, 1979). Given that in complex environments the different dimensions depend in their effects on the states of a relatively high number of other dimensions-as might be expressed for example by interoperability also of e-governance systems (Charalabidis, Lampathaki, & Askounis, 2010)-a particular degree of change in dimensions in complex environments will evoke higher performance landscape changes than the same degree of change causes ceteris paribus in less complex environments. This might also explain why they are often investigated together in form of environmental uncertainty.…”