This book examines how information systems research and education can play a major role in contributing to solutions to the Societal Grand Challenges formulated in “The Millennium Project” (millenium-project.org). Individual chapters focus on specific challenges, review existing approaches and contributions towards solutions in information systems research and outline a research agenda for these challenges. The topics considered in this volume range from climate change, population growth, ...

È una verità universalmente riconosciuta che uno scrittore in possesso di un po' di tempo e di un'idea non ha bisogno di nulla di più urgente della motivazione. Ora, se mi perdona se adatto questa citazione di Jane Austen alle circostanze, le spiego il mio pensiero: Si può avere un'idea rivoluzionaria e tutto il tempo del mondo, solo che è poco utile se manca la motivazione. Se è presente anche questa, tuttavia, possono sorgere domande che possono essere un po' opprimenti, soprattutto per ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2025, held in Krems, Austria, during August 31–September 4, 2025.The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions.The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Foundations and Frameworks of eParticipation; AI and Algorithmic Systems in Public Administration; Governance, Collaboration, and Pol...

This book examines how cloud-based services challenge the current application of antitrust and privacy laws in the EU and the US. The author looks at the elements of data centers, the way information is organized, and how antitrust, competition and privacy laws in the US and the EU regulate cloud-based services and their market practices. She discusses how platform interoperability can be a driver of incremental innovation and the consequences of not promoting radical innovation. She evalu...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2024, held in Ghent, Belgium, during September 3–5, 2024.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The conference is dedicated to digital or electronic government, open government, local government (smart cities), smart governance, artificial intelligence (AI), e-democracy, policy informatics, and...

**All it takes to rewrite the rules is a little fresh ink in this remarkable YA anthology from thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors writing today including Nicola Yoon, Jason Reynolds, Melissa de la Cruz, and many more, and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books. This collection features ten short stories, a graphic short story, and a one-act play from Walter Dean Myers never before in-print. It will give readers the opportunity to discover how the next chapter i...

When Matthew Calmes was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of twenty-six in 2006, his world, and that of his family, was turned upside down. In Joy in the Sorrow, author Sara J. Hoffman, Matt’s sister, shares his story and how his journey helped strengthen her relationship with Christ and define the purpose for her life.She tells how through prayer and a relationship with God, we can use Satan’s tactics for God’s good. Hoffman shares her testimony of the beautiful tap...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2021, held in Granada, Spain, in September 2021, in conjunction with IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV 2021), the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM 2021).The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: digital participation, ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2019, held in Linköping, Sweden, in August/September 2020, in conjunction with the 19th IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV 2020) and the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM 2020). The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 11 full papers presented were carefu...

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he only met her twice in person.Dickinson’s poems are all short; few...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2020, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in December 2020.The 28 revised full research papers included in the volume together with 7 research-in-progress papers and 9 prototype papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: digital public services; ...