Planning, Designing and Evaluating Multiple eGovernment Interventions

Fabrizio d'Amore, Luigi Laura, Luca Luciani, Fabio Pagliarini

2012

Abstract

We consider the scenario where an organ of a public administration, which we refer as the decisionmaker, is requested to plan one or more interventions in some framework related to the Information Society or the eGovernment set of actions. We propose a methodology to support the decisionmaker in orienting, planning, and evaluating multiple (partially overlapping) interventions. In particular, we address two main problems: first, how to decide the structure of the interventions and how to determine the relevant parameters involved; second, how to set up a scoring system for comparing single interventions and its extension to the case of multiple interventions. The methodology unexpectedly shows that it is not always the case that the best outcome is the one obtained by the best projects. We formally model the problem and discuss its computational complexity. Our approach is also effective in process of selecting, from a set of submitted proposals, the ones to be funded.

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in Harvard Style

d'Amore F., Laura L., Luciani L. and Pagliarini F. (2012). Planning, Designing and Evaluating Multiple eGovernment Interventions . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-23-5, pages 85-92. DOI: 10.5220/0004071300850092


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ice-b12,
author={Fabrizio d'Amore and Luigi Laura and Luca Luciani and Fabio Pagliarini},
title={Planning, Designing and Evaluating Multiple eGovernment Interventions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={85-92},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004071300850092},
isbn={978-989-8565-23-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012)
TI - Planning, Designing and Evaluating Multiple eGovernment Interventions
SN - 978-989-8565-23-5
AU - d'Amore F.
AU - Laura L.
AU - Luciani L.
AU - Pagliarini F.
PY - 2012
SP - 85
EP - 92
DO - 10.5220/0004071300850092