The awareness that for optimal realization of ICT potentials radical organizational changes are needed is increasing. Therefore the relationship between ICT and organizational changes in the public sector has become the subject of increasingly intensive research within the last decade. On the basis of critical analysis and synthesis of available literature the draft of a new conceptual model for explaining such relationship in the e-government period is proposed in the paper.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3678894
The article measures the relative efficiency of government spending on higher education in selected new EU member states (with special focus on Croatia and Slovenia) in comparison to selected OECD countries. The article applies a non-parametric approach, i.e. data envelopment analysis (DEA), to assess the relative technical efficiency of higher education across selected countries. The empirical results show, that regardless of the input-output/outcome mix, the higher education system in Slovenia is shown to have a much higher level of efficiency compared to both Croatia and many other comparable new EU member states and OECD countries.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3632558
The problem we address in this research is the evaluation of the role of technology in the process of participative development of policies. While existing literature provides a variety of models and frameworks for evaluating and categorizing e-participation projects, their usability is very limited, since they do not provide pracitcal guide for identifying and modeling specific processes in the public administration, where the use of e-participation can make contribution, nor they address the more important and relevant problem of evaluating the effects of e-participation. Within the IDEAL-EU project, we developed a workflow model for participatory policy design that address these limitations of the existing approaches. Model was developed in two phases. In the first one, we developed a basic, preliminary model that was used to implement three e-participatory project in three different European regions. Following the evaluation of the three projects, in the second phase of development, we refined our model to an advanced one that can be applied for design of future e-participation projects.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3612590