Systems Thinking and E-participation: Ict in the Governance of Society - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605668605 ISBN 13: 9781605668604

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2009

Synopsis

Systems Thinking and E-Participation: ICT in the Governance of Society provides a systemic-based inquiry platform to explore boundaries, limits, and advantages of information and communication technology use in public decision making processes. This publication examines the impact of governmental technologies useful to those involved with politics, sociology, and information systems.

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José-Rodrigo Córdoba (MA, PhD) is a senior lecturer and director of the Master of Science in Business Information Systems at the school of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London in the UK. His research interests are in the improvement of technology use people; the use of systemic thinking, and electronic government. Prior to his master and PhD experiences in the University of Hull in the UK, he worked as a project analyst and project manager in Colombia, his native country. He has published work in journals including the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), the Journal of the Operational Research Society, the Information Systems Journal , Systems Research and Behavioural Science, and Organization. Together with Teresa Torres-Coronas from Universitat Rovira I Virgili, he set up ELIS research group on electronic government and sustainability in 2004. He continues contributing to this group and is also an active member of the Operational Research Society and the British Computer Society in the UK. Currently he lectures in topics of information systems and complex project management. His first single authored book titled Systems Practice in the Information Society is to be released in Autumn 2009.

Alejandro Elias Ochoa-Arias is Professor at the University of Los Andes, Venezuela and Senior Researcher on Interpretive Systemology and Director of the Centro de Investigaciones en Sistemología Interpretativa at the University of Los Andes. Current research interests includes civil society, development, political philosophy and organizational studies, free knowledge and free technology as well as the use and implications of technology in running public affairs. Alejandro has been visiting researcher at the University of Hull (UK) and the University of Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina). He also co-edited a book titled Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development with Gerald Midgley (Springer, 2004). He has several publications on refereed journals and has been invited speaker at many institutions in Venezuela and elsewhere. Alejandro was a member of the Directive Board of a Regional Development Office at Venezuela and member of the Directive Board of the National Council for Free Technology in Venezuela. He got his Master degree in Information Management at Lancaster University (UK) and his PhD at the University of Hull (UK). Currently, he is developing a study on the holistic design of the city at Mérida, Venezuela.

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1605668605
• ISBN 13: 9781605668604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Cordoba-Pachon Jose Rodrigo, Ochoa-Arias Alejandro Elias