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GeoICT Uniformity in Flexibility: Analysis of the influence of geoICT coordination on the cooperation between public organisations with geoICT
This chapter begins with an empirical case where various public sector
organisations in the Netherlands have cooperated with a particular type of
technology, geoICT, since 1996. Throughout this document, GeoICT refers to
the collection of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based
systems allowing the study of natural and man-made phenomena with an
explicit bearing in space (de By, 2004:15). Specific to ‘geo-’ICT is that it
creates and manipulates ‘geospatial data.’ Similarly to other types of ICT, it has
only partly affected the four spheres of government: policy, politics, public
organisation, citizens (Zouridis and Thaens, 2005). However ‘Geo-’ICT has the
potential to influence the public organisation beyond the operational core of
public administration (ibid.). Section 1.2 begins from this assumption and
presents the case. Section 1.3 follows with a conceptual analysis of this case, to
derive a set of basic research questions. Section 1.4 formulates these research
questions. Section 1.5 explains the approach with which these research
questions are addressed. Section 1.6 describes the position of this research in
relation to three research domains: geo-information science, public
administration and organisational science. Section 1.7 provides a summary of
the section and its relation to the subsequent chapters