Distributing Decision-Making between Local Governments on RIGO Boards

2018 ◽  
pp. 189-208
Author(s):  
David Miller ◽  
Jen Nelles ◽  
George Dougherty ◽  
Jay Rickabaugh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Governments

Evolution of e-participation in Greek local government

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Constantina Costopoulou ◽  
Maria Ntaliani ◽  
Filotheos Ntalianis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Community ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Impact

Local governments are increasingly developing electronic participation initiatives, expecting citizen involvement in local community affairs. Our objective was to assess e-participation and the extent of its change in local government in Greece. Using content analysis for 325 Greek municipal websites, we assessed e-participation status in 2017 and 2018 and examined the impact of change between these years. The assessment regards two consecutive years since the adoption of digital technologies by municipalities has been rapid. The main findings show that Greek local governments have made significant small- to medium-scale changes, in order to engage citizens and local societies electronically. We conclude that the integration of advanced digital technologies in municipalities remains underdeveloped. We propose that Greek municipalities need to consider incorporating new technologies, such as mobile apps, social media and big data, as well as e-decision making processes, in order to eliminate those obstacles that hinder citizen engagement in local government. Moreover, the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the need for enhancing e-participation and policymakers’ coordination through advanced digital technologies.

scholarly journals Auditors characteristics and audit delay: Evidence from Indonesian regional governments

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sutaryo Sutaryo ◽  
Yediel Lase
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Auditor Characteristics ◽  
Regional Governments

Overdue financial statements reporting, more specifically audit delay, can cause losses in its capacity in decision making. We investigate the effects of auditor characteristics on local governments’ audit delay by studying 127 Indonesian local governments. We find that auditor professional proficiency and auditor educational background have significant effect on the audit delay of local government financial statements. Our results also indicate the intersection of some auditor characteristics in affecting audit delay. Our findings mainly suggest that the auditor professional proficiency should be improved to shrink audit delay.

E-Governance and Natural Hazards in Mozambique

2015 ◽  
pp. 253-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avelino Mondlane ◽  
Karin Hasson ◽  
Oliver Popov
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Impact

Strategic planning is a decisive process toward sustainable development for any organization. Mozambique has developed many tools toward good governance, among which Poverty Alleviation Strategy Paper (PARPA) is an umbrella. PARPA includes different key decisive segments of society, particularly the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as the pool for development. This chapter investigates to what extent e-Governance, particularly the development of strategies based on ICTs, can contribute to minimize the impact of floods at local governments by addressing best practice and decision-making process. The authors address backcasting methodology as an approach to consider in a participatory strategic planning for long-term decision-making processes. They use Chókwe District as a showcase where e-governance has an impact in mitigating and preventing the impact of floods.

Local Government as a Democracy Actor or a Service Delivery Actor

2014 ◽  
pp. 127-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Demediuk ◽  
Stephen Burgess ◽  
Rolf Solli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Governance Practice

Local governance occurs where a local government gives citizens a say in things that really matter to them, and e-governance initiatives provide electronic means to enable citizens to participate in this shared governing of the community. The clearer a local government is about the nature and degree to which it needs to act as a democracy actor (better citizens and better government) and/or a service delivery actor (better decision making), the greater the prospect that it can choose appropriate electronic means through an e-governance approach to meet those ends. In order to guide an e-governance practice and inform further research, this chapter: provides models that articulate the elements that constitute better decision making, better citizens, and better government, and presents examples from five local governments of how electronic means can satisfy particular ends.

Citizen-Government Collaborative Environment Using Social Networks

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-165
Author(s):  
Hany Abdelghaffar ◽  
Lobna Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Electronic Democracy ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
The World

Electronic democracy is a concept which is used in some countries around the world with mixed success. Social networks helped in facilitating democracy and democratic change in several countries suggesting that they could be utilized as an e-democracy tool. This research proposed a new model of how the decision-making process for local governments could be improved via social networks. Quantitative approach was used to investigate how the use of a social network amongst people living in the same suburb could improve decision making on the local level. Findings showed that awareness building, deliberation, and consultation factors could be used to affect the decision making for their local governments.

Applying ICTs in Juridicial Decision Making by Government Agencies

2011 ◽  
pp. 87-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Groothuis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Expert Systems ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Human Interference ◽  
Government Organizations

Electronic government is developing throughout Europe. Increasingly, central, regional, and local governments use ICT applications to perform their tasks. In the 1970s and 1980s, computers were mainly used to perform administrative tasks (including word processing). In the 1990s, juridical expert systems were introduced within government organizations: software programs which can solve juridical problems, either without any human interference or with limited human interference, by means of a reasoning mechanism and a “knowledge database” (Groothuis, 2004). Furthermore, government agencies started to use new ICT applications such as the Internet and e-mail to communicate electronically with citizens. This article examines the juridical aspects of automatic decision making and electronic communication by government agencies in The Netherlands and addresses the following questions: 1. What is the legal framework for automatic decision-making by government agencies in The Netherlands? 2. What is the juridical quality of decisions made by expert systems in practice? 3. What is the legal framework for electronic communication between government agencies and citizens in The Netherlands? 4. To what extent does electronic government exist in The Netherlands and what are its prospects for the period 2005-2007?

Accomplishing Access Management on the Florida Intrastate Highway System: US-19 Highway Corridor Experience

2003 ◽  
Vol 1858 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Kramer ◽  
Kristine M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Access Management ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Improve Access ◽  
Highway System

The Florida intrastate highway system (FIHS) is the network of state roads intended to carry the bulk of the state’s high-speed and high-volume traffic movements. Comprising only 3% of the state’s roads, the FIHS carries 32% of all traffic and 70% of truck traffic on the state highway system. However, the safe and efficient operation of the FIHS is in jeopardy. The system faces ever increasing levels of congestion and delay and a projected 20-year shortfall of $ 29 billion for needed capacity improvements. Given the lack of funding for needed capacity improvements, the Florida Department of Transportation (DOT) is turning to alternative strategies to preserve the operational integrity and safety of the system. Among these strategies is access management. The application of access management techniques on the FIHS is complicated, and sometimes undermined, by the separation of land use decision-making authority (controlled by local governments) and roadway decision-making authority (controlled by Florida DOT). To improve access management decision making on the FIHS, Florida DOT has begun to explain the overall benefits of access management to local governments and to coordinate the land development and road-way decision-making processes. Summarized is an effort to improve access management decision-making practices on a 10-mi corridor of US-19 in rural Levy County, an important north–south component of the FIHS.

Policy analysis and evidence-based decision making at the local level

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Mossberger ◽  
David Swindell ◽  
Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst ◽  
Kuang-Ting Tai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Municipal Reform ◽  
Reinventing Government ◽  
Local Use

Local governments in the U.S. have many policy responsibilities and relatively more autonomy in decision making than in many countries. Yet, there is a gap in recent research on the use of policy analysis and data-driven decision making in local governments. Historically, the use of data and evidence has influenced change at the local level, from municipal reform in the 20th century to reinventing government. Currently, there are calls for more evidence-based policymaking, and we offer some recent survey evidence on the use of policy analysis and data at the local level, as well as case studies that further demonstrate how evidence gets used. Given great variation in government size, capacity, governance and policies at the local level, along with the potential for experimentation and comparison, greater research attention to local use of analysis and data could contribute to both scholarship and practice.

Local Sustainability: Balancing Quality and Equality?

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Agyeman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Local Sustainability ◽  
Human Equality

AbstractThis paper attempts to link four themes which are interrelated, but not often discussed together in local sustainability discourses. They are: the tension between achieving both environmental quality and human equality; the possibilities offered by Local Agenda 21 (LA21); what a sustainable community or society might look like and some good practice guidelines for local governments in their pivotal role as key facilitators of local sustainability.Environmentalists and environmental educators are good on notions of what they perceive as ‘environmental quality’, but are poor, or very poor on notions of ‘human equality’. Human equality has always been an implicit agreement as opposed to an explicit goal, safely tucked away in the notion of ‘quality of life’.One of the guiding principles of LA21 is that people normally excluded from the decision making process (women, indigenous people and young people) need to be integrally involved in decision making within a framework which stresses the importance of public participation. The reason for this inclusive form of participation is that these groups are seen as having had little impact on the production of local environments, although they are sometimes disproportionately affected by them, by virtue of their social role.Using a set of 13 themes that were developed by community consultations In Britain that would feature in a sustainable community or society, the paper looks at the potential for integrating quality and equality concerns. The paper finishes by looking at some good practice guidelines or ways that local governments, as decision makers nearest local peoples, could be integrating quality and equality concerns into emerging local sustainability strategies.

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