Government Information Quarterly - Special Issue on ICEGOV2011

MARIJN JANSSEN; ELSA ESTEVEZ

Elsevier

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2013 p. 109

0-0740-6241-7

Governments from all over the world are looking for ways to reduce costs while at the same time to stimulate innovation. While pursuing both objectives, governments face a major challenge-to operate in a connected environment, engage stakeholders and solve societal problems by utilizing new methods, tools, practices and governance models. As result, fundamental changes are taking place on how government operates. Such changes are under the larger umbrella of "lean government" (l-Government). Lean government is a new wave which is appearing as a response to traditional approaches - like electronic government (e-Government) and transformational government (t-Government), and aims at reducing the complexity of the public sector by simplifying and streamlining organizational structures and processes, at the same time at stimulating innovation by mobilizing stakeholders. In l-Government, public organizations introduce platforms facilitating innovation and interactions with other public organizations, business and citizens, and focus on their orchestration role. Experimentation, assessment and gradual improvement based on user requirements are key factors for realizing l-Government.The special issue presents contributions to l-Government from eight. The papers are selected from the submission of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV2011, held in Tallinn, Estonia held in September 2011. In the conference over 500 people coming from 63 countries participated.