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Diversos estudios señalan que la integración interorganizacional de información gubernamental mediante el uso de tecnologías de información puede generar una serie de beneficios a la administración pública; los cuales se pueden clasificar en tres grandes categorías: técnicos, organizacionales y políticos, que en su conjunto tocan aspectos tales como la mejora en la toma de decisiones, la mejora en la coordinación, la reducción de costos y la planificación integrada, entre otros. Sin embargo, para alcanzar estos beneficios se debe primero lograr que estas iniciativas sean exitosas, por lo que es importante saber cuáles son los factores que influyen en la implementación y gestión de dichas iniciativas. Para dar respuesta a esta interrogante, en este trabajo se lleva a cabo el estudio de un caso real de este tipo de iniciativas, en dónde se analizan los factores que tienen mayor influencia en su implementación y gestión, los que pueden ser de índole tecnológica, organizacional, institucional o contextual. Palabras Clave:Gobierno Electrónico, Integración Interorganizacional de Información, Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación, Colaboración. ; Several studies indicate that government interorganizational information integration through the use of information technologies generates benefits to the public administration that can be classified into three broad categories: technical, organizational and political, which together deal with issues such as improvement in decision-making, better coordination and cost reduction, integrated planning, among others. However, in order to achieve these benefits first it is necessary to implement these initiatives in practice and with certain degree of success. Therefore, it is important to know the factors influencing the implementation and management of such initiatives. To respond to this quesiton, this work studies a real case of this type of initiative, where we analyze the factors having the greatest influence, which can be technical, organizational, institutional or contextual. Keywords: Electronic Government, Interorganizational Information Integration, Information and Communication Technologies, Colaboration.

From electronic government to information government / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and David Lazer -- Technological change and information flows in government -- Global perspectives on e-government / Darrell M. West -- Case illustration: FirstGov: the road to success of the U.S. government's web portal / Maria Christina Binz-Scharf -- Electronic government and the drive for growth and equity / Edwin Lau -- Case illustration: "E-government is an outcome": Michael Armstrong and the transformation of Des Moines / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and David Lazer -- Challenges to organizational change: multi-level integrated information structures (MIIS) / Jane E. Fountain -- Case illustration: from computerization to convergence: the case of e-government in Singapore / Ines Mergel -- Case illustration: Dubai's electronic government / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and David Lazer -- The blurring of the informational boundary between state and society -- Weak democracy, strong information: the role of information technology in the rulemaking process / Cary Coglianese -- Case illustration: the EPA EDOCKET system / Gopal Raman -- Freedom of information and electronic government / Herbert Burkert -- Case illustration: protecting privacy by requesting access: Marc Rotenberg and EPIC / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and David Lazer -- Socio-technologies of assembly: sense making and demonstration in rebuilding lower Manhattan / Monique Girard and David Stark -- Case illustration: the rise and fall (?) of participatory electronic information infrastructures / Åke Grönlund -- "Open-source politics" reconsidered: emerging patterns in online political participation / Matthew Hindman -- Case illsutration: cyberprotesting globalization: a case of online activism / Sandor Vegh -- Evaluating the impact of reengineering information flows -- The challenge of evaluating m-government, e-government, and p-government: what should be compared with what? / Robert D. Behn -- Case illustration: the Swiss e-government barometer: Kuno Schedler feels the temperature of e-government services / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and David Lazer -- Information quality in electronic government: toward the systematic management of high-quality information in electronic government-to-citizen relationships / Martin J. Eppler -- Case illustration: information quality in electronic government websites: an example from Italy's Ministry for Public Administration / Lorenzo Cantoni -- It takes a network to build a network / David Lazer and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf -- Case illustration: TeleCities: sharing knowledge among European cities / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and David Lazer -- The governing of government information / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and David Lazer

Access to government information is an integral part of our heritage in the United States. In the 1800s, the federal government began distributing publications to American libraries, and with the Printing Act of 1895, Congress created the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) with the purpose of distributing government information and data. Through the FDLP, our researchers have access to a wealth of government products, which provide in many cases the foundational materials for telling their research stories. In recent years, the rapidly changing information landscape has disrupted this workflow, especially as government information and data have become available in digital formats. Librarians and other information professionals from a variety of universities and organizations in the United States are undertaking a two year project to address national concerns regarding the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) by cultural memory organizations for long term use. The focus of the PEGI project is at-risk government digital information of long term historical significance, especially for our future data storytellers. This session will provide attendees with an overview of the PEGI project and will encourage discussion about preservation of digital-born information and data that will help to inform the project's outcomes.

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Electronic dissemination of government documents can reduce distribution costs and make government information more usable and accessible. However, the transition to a paperless environment will require that several challenges be overcome. Transferring the depository library program to the Library of Congress entails both advantages and disadvantages. In studies done in 1993 and 1994, the Library concluded that the depository library program was not inconsistent with the mission and functions of the Library and that it might be appropriate for the Library to oversee this program. However, the Government Printing Office (GPO) believes that the Library is not an appropriate home for the depository library program because the Library's mission and operations are inconsistent with a large-scale information dissemination program. In addition, the studies and librarian organizations raised concerns about the potential negative effects of the transfer on public access to information and the availability of funds to maintain the current program. If a decision is made to transfer the depository library program, the concerns raised by library organizations and employee unions should be addressed. One option for addressing these issues is to form a GPO/Library transition team to develop appropriate strategies."

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In the theoretical literature on tolerance a distinction is proposed between coexistence and respect tolerance. In three studies with four national samples of Dutch majority members, we demonstrate that these two forms of tolerance can be distinguished empirically in relation to different immigrant target groups. The findings of all studies further show that the more principled respect tolerance was negatively associated with prejudice towards immigrants, and positively associated with the acceptance of concrete minority practices, above and beyond prejudice. However, the positive association between respect tolerance and acceptance of practices was weaker for people who were more strongly concerned about the continuity of their national cultural identity. Overall, the more pragmatic coexistence tolerance was found to have no independent association with prejudicial feelings and with the acceptance of minority practices. The findings indicate that stimulating respect tolerance might be particularly helpful for improving intergroup relations in culturally diverse societies.

E-government projects have potential for greater efficiency and effectiveness of government operations. For this reason, many developing countries governments have invested heavily in this agenda and an increasing number of e-government projects are being implemented. However, there is a lack of clear case material, which describes the potentialities and consequence experienced by organizations trying to manage with this change. The Ministry of State for Administrative Development (MSAD) is the organization responsible for the e-Government program in Egypt since early 2004. This paper presents a case study of the process of admission to public universities and institutions in Egypt which is led by MSAD. Underlining the key benefits resulting from the initiative, explaining the strategies and the development steps used to implement it, and highlighting the main obstacles encountered and how they were overcome will help repeat the experience in other useful e-government projects.

Crop modelling has the potential to contribute to global food and nutrition security. This paper briefly examines the history of crop modelling by international crop research centres of the CGIAR (formerly Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research but now known simply as CGIAR), whose primary focus is on less developed countries. Basic principles of crop modelling building up to a Genotype × Environment × Management × Socioeconomic (G × E × M × S) paradigm, are explained. Modelling has contributed to better understanding of crop performance and yield gaps, better prediction of pest and insect outbreaks, and improving the efficiency of crop management including irrigation systems and optimization of planting dates. New developments include, for example, use of remote sensed data and mobile phone technology linked to crop management decision support models, data sharing in the new era of big data, and the use of genomic selection and crop simulation models linked to environmental data to help make crop breeding decisions. Socio-economic applications include foresight analysis of agricultural systems under global change scenarios, and the consequences of potential food system shocks are also described. These approaches are discussed in this paper which also calls for closer collaboration among disciplines in order to better serve the crop research and development communities by providing model based recommendations ranging from policy development at the level of governmental agencies to direct crop management support for resource poor farmers.