Johann Höchtl

Danube University Krems

This chapter discusses a participation and technology enabled model of the citizen scientist in relation to the policy cycle. With interconnected personal devices collecting a plethora of various data, citizens are capable to serendipitously contribute to crowded knowledge generation. In the governance domain, the trend towards more data-driven mod...

The research project Data Market Austria (DMA) seeks to develop a platform on which data owners, service creators, and infrastructure providers will gather to operate in datadriven business models. The platform will provide the required infrastructure elements to unfold a truly self-sustainable data market. The functioning of a data market technica...

The Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practices1 are designed to act as a source of guidance for public organisations fulfilling their duties under the European Commission’s Revised PSI Directive2. It extends and contextualises the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices, which provides general advice for sharing information online in such a way as to maximise its val...

This summer issue of JeDEM presents the most recent “ongoing submissions” to the Journal of E-Democracy and Open Government. The authors have not submitted to a particular call for papers, but have responded to the journal’s open invitation to submit a paper to JeDEM’s main topics. The papers in this issue analyse current strengths and weaknesses i...

Over the past decade, open data became an important economic resources and therefore rapidly found their way into data warehouses and data management systems of companies and organizations world-wide. Yet providing these data and the associated data curation still presents a challenging task for all involved stakeholders. The ADEQUATe project there...

Although of high relevance to political science, the interaction between technological change and political change in the era of Big Data remains somewhat of a neglected topic. Most studies focus on the concept of e-government and e-governance, and on how already existing government activities performed through the bureaucratic body of public admin...

Open Government Data has become an integral part for European governments at all federal levels. However, varying jurisdictions and government structures have also contributed to different operational models. The UK is pursuing a more central approach, expressing political will through its prime minister and with the ODI providing the technical and...

This paper analyses the implementation of the Open Government Data strategy and portal of the City of Vienna. This evaluation is based on qualitative interviews and online polls after the strategy was implemented. Two groups of users were involved in the evaluation: internal target groups (employees and heads of department in the City of Vienna's p...

Open Government Data has become an integral part for European governments at all federal levels. However, varying jurisdictions and government structures have also contributed to different operational models. The UK is pursuing a more central approach, expressing political will through its prime minister and with the ODI providing the technical and...

In Government 2.0, public value no longer needs to be provided by government alone but can be provided by any combination of public agencies, the private sector, civil society organizations or citizens. The ubiquitous presence of ICT, citizens’ digital literacy, and their potential willingness to participate online can efficiently enable collaborat...

Europe still has to find its way to become a truly united state, overcoming diverse legal and political frameworks and moral understandings and ethical values. The FOCUS project, EU funded under the FP7 research program, has the goal to identify future EU roles in security research. One important aspect is an agreed and comprehensive set of securit...

Currently information management in public administration is discussed under the aspects of information production, effective information provision and information logistics. The authors point out why the provision of Open Government Data shall be seen as a core element of strategic information management in the public sector and why extensive lite...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to depict the present situation of e‐participation initiatives of Austrian municipalities and derives recommendations to further enhance the e‐participation sophistication level. Design/methodology/approach The findings are based on hypotheses we verified against a dataset obtained from an electronic survey amo...

This paper offers a description of the e-Government Strategy in Austria and its e-Government readiness, and looks at how two different user groups are experiencing e-Government in Austria. Studies conducted show that adolescent citizens are more optimistic and enthusiastic about the possibilities offered whilst the municipalities are more skeptical...

In Austria, two recent eParticipation projects focused on adolescent citizens. The first project, “mitmachen.at – move your future” was to provide initial experiences with an eParticipation tool. The second project, “Jugend2help”, applied the lessons learned from the “mitmachen.at” project to improve the Austrian public administration web portal fo...

The internet is able to support and encourage high levels of altruism such as volunteerism, providing assistance, emotional support. These are forms of prosocial behavior, and people sometimes behave more kindly to others on the net, perhaps more so than they would in similar real-life situations. In Government 2.0, public value no longer needs to...