Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance and Transformation Concepts, Approaches and Challenges

This book provides the latest research advancements and findings for the scientific systematization of knowledge regarding digital governance and transformation, such as core concepts, foundational principles, theories, methodologies, architectures, assessment frameworks and future directions. It brings forward the ingredients of this new domain, proposing its needed formal and systematic tools, exploring its relation with neighbouring scientific domains and finally prescribing the next steps for laying the foundations of a new science.

The book is structured into three main areas. The first section focuses on contributions towards the purpose, ingredients and structure of the scientific foundations of digital transformation in the public sector. The second looks at the identification and description of domain's scientific problems with a view to stabilizing research products, assessment methods and tools in a reusable, extendable and sustainable manner. The third envisions apathway for future research to tackle broader governance problems via the applications of information and communication technologies in combination with innovative approaches from neighbouring scientific domains.

Contributing to the analysis of the scientific perspectives of digital governance and digital transformation, this book will be an indispensable tool for students, researchers and practitioners interested in digital governance, digital transformation, information systems, as well as ICT industry experts and policymakers charged with the design, deployment and implementation of public sector information systems.

Part A: Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance.- Chapter 1 - Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance - Why, What and How (Yannis Charalabidis,Zoi Lachana, Charalampos Alexopoulos).-Chapter 2 - Digital governance as a scientific concept (Tove Engvall, Leif Skiftenes Flak).- Chapter 3 - Digital Government Research: A Diverse Domain (Hans J. Scholl).- Chapter 4 - On the Structure of the Digital Governance Domain ( Zoi Lachana, Yannis Charalabidis, Panagiotis Keramidis).- Chapter 5 - Digital Governance education: Survey of the programs and curricula ( Demetrios Sarantis, Soumaya Ben Dhaou, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Alexander Ronzhyn, Francesco Mureddu).- Chapter 6 - Discussing the Foundations for Interpretivist Digital Government Research (Keegan McBride, Yuri Misnikov, Dirk Draheim).- Part B: Digital Governance Problem and Solution Space.- Chapter 7 - Understanding Digital Transformation in Government( Frank Danielsen, Leif Skiftenes Flak, Øystein Sæbø),- Chapter 8 - A Public Value Impact Assessment Framework for Digital Governance (Anne Fleur van Veenstra, Tjerk Timan).- Chapter 9 - Fostering a data-centric public administration: strategies, policy models and technologies ( Francesco Mureddu, David Osimo, Angeles Kenny, Matthew Upson, Vassilios Peristeras).- Chapter 10 - A Methodology for Evaluating and Improving Digital Governance Systems Based on Information Systems Success Models and Public Value Theory (Euripidis Loukis).- Chapter 11 - Understanding the impact of public policy context on the implementation orientation for the digital transformation of interoperable public services (Raul M. Abril).- Joep Crompvoets).- Chapter 12 - Agent Based Modeling in Digital Governance Research: A Review and Future Research Directions ( Prakash C. Sukhwal, Atreyi Kankanhalli).- Part C: Perspectives and Future Research Directions for Digital Governance.- Chapter 13 - Government 3.0: Scenarios and Roadmap of Research ( Alexander Ronzhyn, Maria A. Wimmer).- Chapter 14 -Building Digital Governance Competencies: Baseline for a Curriculum and Master Programme (Gabriela Viale Pereira, Alexander Ronzhyn, Maria A. Wimmer).- Chapter 15 - E-Justice: A Review and Agenda for Future Research ( Nilay Yavuz, Naci Karkin, Mete Yildiz).- Chapter 16 - Digitalisation and Developing a Participatory Culture: Participation, Co-production, Co-destruction ( Noella Edelmann ).

Yannis Charalabidis is Professor of Digital Governance, at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, in Samos, Greece.

Leif Skiftenes Flak is Professor of information systems and Director of CeDiT, Centre for Digital Transformation at the University of Agder (UiA), Norway.

Gabriela Viale Pereira is Assistant Professor for Information Systems at the Department for E-Governance and Administration at Danube University Krems, Austria.