ECePS - ERA Chair in E-Governance and Digital Public Services
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ECePS is a 5-year project funded by the EU to raise the research excellence and profile of the University of Tartu in addressing three questions:• How to harness the benefits of digital transformation of government while minimizing the associated risks and ensuring security, privacy and equal access?
• How can obstacles that prevent governments from implementing e-governance systems be overcome?
• How can researchers and practitioners best utilize the vast amounts of data that is already being generated throughout the world (via existing public e-services)?
ECePS will do so by:
• Applying predictive analytics to existing e-governance systems to suggest improvements to evidence-based policymaking;
• Examining how e-governance data can be utilized to test the effect of specific policies on behavior in real time and not through ex-post impact evaluations;
• Identifying how real-time analysis of in-motion big data can be done while protecting citizens’ privacy and security;
• Examining the impact of e-participation in democratic systems;
Recent Submissions
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Technology and democracy: the who and how in decision-making. The cases of Estonia and Catalonia
(2022)This paper focusses on the use of technology to improve democracy, comparing the cases of Estonia and Catalonia. Both examples are closely related in their use of technology to further democratize the decision-making ... -
How to Implement the European Digital Single Market: Identifying the catalyst for digital transformation
(2022)COVID-19 is regarded as a major driver for digital transformation of our society and, potentially as a boost for further digital single market integration. From the current perspective, pandemics cannot be avoided, but ... -
Adopting microblogging solutions for interaction with government: survey results from Hunan province, China
(2022)Authorities in the People’s Republic of China communicate with citizens using an estimated six hundred thousand Sina Weibo microblogs. This study reports on a study of Chinese citizens’ adoption of microblogs to interact ... -
Exploring Estonian e-government before, during, and beyond COVID-19
(New Zealand Journal for Research on Europe (NZJRE), 2021)The outbreak of COVID-19 saw lockdowns imposed across the world, and traditionally in-person tasks and services shifted online. While this posed immense challenges in some governmental and institutional settings, in Estonia ... -
Digitalisering in de rechtspraak: kan Nederland leren van Estland?
(Rechtstreeks, 2021)Existing comparative studies suggest Estonia is outperforming many Western European countries in terms of electronic service delivery in the judiciary system. This article provides an explanation for this observation. One ... -
“@Government There’s a pothole in my street!”: Canadian citizens’ adoption choices of social media use in citizen-government relations
(2021-11)Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook offer new opportunities for co-production and interaction between citizens and government agencies. Until now, explanations of why citizens use social media to interact ... -
“Citizens’ social media adoption in Paraguay”
(2021)This article aims to identify which factors are associated with Paraguayan citizens’ use of social media in citizen-government relations. We gathered data using a vignette-survey with which responses to four public service ... -
Sixth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting E-Vote-ID 2021. 5-8 October 2021
(University of Tartu Press, 2021)This volume contains papers presented at E-Vote-ID 2021, the Sixth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, held during October 5-8, 2021. Due to the extraordinary situation provoked by Covid-19 Pandemic, the ... -
Weibo to the Rescue? A study of social media use in citizen–government relations in China
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021)Purpose In this study, the authors explain citizens’ adoption of social media in citizen–government relations in China, a country that blends an authoritarian governance regime with limited tolerance of and responsiveness ... -
“If it makes you happy … it can’t be that bad”: An explanatory study of students’ well-being during international exchange
(International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2021)This study reports on adolescents’ experiences as exchange students in an international exchange program. Based on a literature review and multivariate analysis of original on-line survey data collected from 408 students ... -
From the Parliament to a Polling Station: How to Make Electoral Laws More Comprehensible to Election Administrators
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2021)This article suggests that law modelling (using Business Process Model and Notation, BPMN) could make electoral laws more comprehensible to different stakeholders, and in particular, to election administration, especially ... -
On State-Level Architecture of Digital Government Ecosystems: From ICT-Driven to Data-Centric
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2021-05)The \digital transformation" is perceived as the key enabler for increasing wealth and well-being by politics, media and the citizens alike. In the same vein, digital government steadily receives more and more attention. ...