On Line Citizenship

Eleonora Di Maria, Ph.D. in organization and business management, is senior research at the TeDIS Center, Venice International University. She is researcher at the University of Padova and she also collaborates with Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests focus on the impacts of information technologies on economic developments and on the evolution of local systems and cities related to ICT. Stefano Micelli is associate professor of business management at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Director of the TeDIS Center (Center for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems), Venice International University. He is author of many articles and books focused on the impacts of ICT on firms and local manufacturing systems of SMEs.

• Digital Cities and E-Government: The Institutional Perspective.- E-Government: European Commission Policies and Activities.- TeleCities: The Role of City Networks in E-Government Processes.- The Italian Approach to Local E-Government.- Experience and Initiatives in Europe.- E-Democracy: The Participation of Citizens and New Forms of the Decision-Making Process.- Web Service Portals: Transforming Local Administrations Through Enabling Technologies.- Re-Use of Solutions and Open Source Software in Public Administrations.- E-Government Developmental Guidelines.

From the reviews: "The book collects the papers presented at the International Conference on On Line Citizenship, held in Venice, Italy, in May 2003. ... the book introduces a novel way to look at e-Government issues, more focused on local participation stemming from the experiences of some European cities. Some technical details about the presented projects are discussed, together with interesting political and sociological considerations, thus making the book relevant to a broad audience ... ." (Massimo Mecella, Journal of E-Government, Vol. 2 (3), 2005)