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Towards Government as a Social Machine

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Vanilson Burégio,

Kellyton Brito,

Vinícius Garcia,

Silvio MeiraAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 1131 - 1136

https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2743976

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Government initiatives to open data to the public are becoming increasingly popular every day. The vast amount of data made available by government organizations yields interesting opportunities and challenges - both socially and technically. In this paper, we propose a social machine-oriented architecture as a way to extend the power of open data and create the basis to derive government as a social machine (Gov-SM). The proposed Gov-SM combines principles from existing architectural patterns and provides a platform of specialized APIs to enable the creation of several other social-technical systems on top of it. Based on some implementation experiences, we believe that deriving government as a social machine can, in more than one sense, collaborate to fully integrate users, developers and crowd in order to participate in and solve a multitude of governmental issues and policy.

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WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

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DOI:10.1145/2740908

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de Oliveira ESilveira MJanssen MChun SWeerakkody V(2018)Open government data in Brazil a systematic review of its uses and issuesProceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age10.1145/3209281.3209339(1-9)Online publication date: 30-May-2018
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