Digital Library Evaluation: Toward an Evolution of Concepts

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E-democracy: exploring the current stage of e-government

Governments around the world have been pressured to implement e-Government programs in order to improve the government-citizen dialogue. The authors of this article review prior literature on such efforts to find if they lead to increased democratic participation ("e-Democracy") for the affected citizens, with a focus on the key concepts of transparency, openness, and engagement. The authors find that such efforts are a starting point toward e-Democracy, but the journey is far from complete

Remotely hosted services and 'cloud computing'

Emerging technologies for learning report - Article exploring potential of cloud computing to address educational issue

Semantic Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data

Internet and the proliferation of smart mobile devices have changed the way information is created, shared, and spreads, e.g., microblogs such as Twitter, weblogs such as LiveJournal, social networks such as Facebook, and instant messengers such as Skype and WhatsApp are now commonly used to share thoughts and opinions about anything in the surrounding world. This has resulted in the proliferation of social media content, thus creating new opportunities to study public opinion at a scale that was never possible before. Naturally, this abundance of data has quickly attracted business and research interest from various fields including marketing, political science, and social studies, among many others, which are interested in questions like these: Do people like the new Apple Watch? Do Americans support ObamaCare? How do Scottish feel about the Brexit? Answering these questions requires studying the sentiment of opinions people express in social media, which has given rise to the fast growth of the field of sentiment analysis in social media, with Twitter being especially popular for research due to its scale, representativeness, variety of topics discussed, as well as ease of public access to its messages. Here we present an overview of work on sentiment analysis on Twitter.Comment: Microblog sentiment analysis; Twitter opinion mining; In the Encyclopedia on Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM), Second edition. 201

Trust in E-Government in Pakistan: Analyzing the Influencing Factors of Accessibility, Security, and Usefulness

Citizen’s satisfaction is a vital factor for consistent use of e-Government administrations and the achievement or disappointment of e-Government ventures. The fundamental test for research is what the critical determinants of their satisfaction are? This paper plans to distinguish the key factors that decide e-Satisfaction with e-Government administrations entryway. In light of a broad audit of critical writing, five theories are detailed what's more, three elements are recognized (i.e security, accessibility and usefulness) with respect to the availability, consciousness of open administrations, what's more, nature of public administrations that may influence the level of satisfaction towards utilizing the e-Government gateway. Review information from 385 representatives was gathered and used to test the proposed speculations. Given different direct relapse and factor investigations, our experimental examination exhibits a few key discoveries. Keywords: Perceived accessibility, perceived security, perceived usefulness, citizen’s satisfaction, trust in e-government