Does the answer to eGovernment lie in intermunicipal collaboration? An exploratory Italian case study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5184 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-12

  Sorrentino, Maddalena ^a   Ferro, Enrico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collaborative eGovernment; eGovernment; ICT management; Intermunicipal cooperation; Networks; Partnerships

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

APPLICATION SOFTWARES; BINDING COMMITMENT; CASE STUDIES; COLLABORATIVE EGOVERNMENT; E GOVERNMENTS; EGOVERNMENT; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT FUNDING; ICT MANAGEMENT; INTERMUNICIPAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NETWORKS; ORGANIZATION SCIENCE; PARTNERSHIPS;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 52149091631     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85204-9_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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