Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy: Volume 14 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Kamran Mahroof, Marijn Janssen

Research challenges for the use of big data in policy-making

Francesco Mureddu, Juliane Schmeling, Eleni Kanellou

This paper aims to present pertinent research challenges in the field of (big) data-informed policy-making based on the research, undertaken within the course of the European…

Effective and efficient usage of big data analytics in public sector

Mohammad I. Merhi, Klajdi Bregu

This study aims to achieve three goals: present a holistic, flexible and dynamic model; define the model’s factors and explain how these factors lead to effective and efficient…

Uncertain risk: assessing open data signals

Anne L. Washington

Open data resources contain few signals for assessing their suitability for data analytics. The purpose of this paper is to characterize the uncertainty experienced by open data…

Artificial intelligence-based public sector data analytics for economic crisis policymaking

Euripidis N. Loukis, Manolis Maragoudakis, Niki Kyriakou

Public sector has started exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, however, mainly for operational but much less for tactical or level tasks. The purpose of this study…

One study, four cities: information impact in neighborhood economic development

Jeffrey Carroll

The purpose of this study is to create a theory on how a commissioned study impacts the decision-making of local government officials.

Big data maturity models for the public sector: a review of state and organizational level models

Aras Okuyucu, Nilay Yavuz

Despite several big data maturity models developed for businesses, assessment of big data maturity in the public sector is an under-explored yet important area. Accordingly, the…