A Bottom-up E-Participation Process: Empowering Citizens to Innovate the Public Administration and its Sphere of Influence

Citizen participation procedures are increasingly used as a democratic instrument in political processes. While e-government development is slowly producing digitized solutions for implementation, there is potential for involving citizens in innovation processes in public administration. Currently, such operations are initiated reactively by the public sector in response to problems for which solutions are pursued. With a structured innovation process, the creativity of citizens can be used participatory to further develop the public administration and its services proactively, i.e., without a specific problem background. This paper describes current characteristics of e‑participation and open innovation based on related literature and discusses their use for a proactive, bottom-up public innovation process. Furthermore, Business Process Model & Notation (BPMN) is used to illustrate a simple conceptual process for contributing and assessing ideas supported by an idea management system

Mecanismos para garantizar la seguridad jurídica en los Contratos Internacionales

No solamente la libertad de elección del derecho es requisito imprescindible para garantizar la seguridad jurídica en los contratos internacionales. Para ello es necesaria también la libre elección de foro. El Convenio de la Haya sobre acuerdos de elección de foro de 30 de julio de 2005 pretende introducir esta libertad a nivel internacional. En el presente artículo analiza, tras un breve análisis de la importancia de la autonomía conflictual en el plano procesal y de elección del derecho aplicable, el contenido de dicho Convenio, destacando sus puntos fuertes y también aquellas cuestiones en las que se hace presente el llamado “conflicto de la justicia europeo-americano”, para finalmente hacer hincapié en la necesidad  de su amplia ratificación

Creating Common Ground: Formalizing and Designing Employee-driven Innovation Processes with Decision Points

Striving for innovation and advancement, a phenomenon can be observed wherein organizations are progressively incorporating their \u27ordinary\u27 employees into the innovation process, capitalizing on their creativity, expertise, and knowledge to foster novel ideas. Such integration mandates formalized yet flexible processes to offer a common ground for both employees as idea contributors and managers as decision-makers, enabling control and governance. Despite this, a conspicuous knowledge gap exists within the realm of employee-driven innovation (EDI) concerning the design of EDI processes. In this paper, we present the outcomes of an action design research project conducted with a medium-sized organization, focusing on formalizing and designing an EDI process with decision points through three iterative cycles. This research contributes fourteen meta-requirements and eleven design principles for EDI process design, thereby expanding the theoretical (prescriptive) knowledge base. Additionally, the results offer practical implications, enabling organizations to adopt the EDI process accordingly

La importancia de la autonomía conflictual para el futuro del Derecho de los contratos internacionales

Resumen: La autonomía conflictual en el Derecho de los contratos internacionales no es ninguna solución de compromiso, sino un principio general de conexión. Este artículo expone las razones de la vigencia de la autonomía conflictual en este sector y analiza las condiciones y las consecuencias de una elección del derecho en el Derecho de los contratos internacionales así como sus límites a la luz del Reglamento Roma I y de la Convención de México. Palabras clave: autonomía conflictual, Reglamento Roma I, derecho no estatal, normas imperativas, orden público. Abstract: Freedom of choice of law in international contract law is not a mere stopgap, but a general connection principle. This paper shows the reasons of the contemporary validity of party autonomy in conflict of contract laws and analyses the consequences of the freedom of choice of law as well as its limits in light of the Rome I Regulation and the Inter-American Convention on the Law Applicable to International Contracts. Key words: freedom of choice of law, Rome I Regulation, non-state law, mandatory rules, public order.Resumen: La autonomía conflictual en el Derecho de los contratos internacionales no es ninguna solución de compromiso, sino un principio general de conexión. Este artículo expone las razones de la vigencia de la autonomía conflictual en este sector y analiza las condiciones y las consecuencias de una elección del derecho en el Derecho de los contratos internacionales así como sus límites a la luz del Reglamento Roma I y de la Convención de México. Palabras clave: autonomía conflictual, Reglamento Roma I, derecho no estatal, normas imperativas, orden público. Abstract: Freedom of choice of law in international contract law is not a mere stopgap, but a general connection principle. This paper shows the reasons of the contemporary validity of party autonomy in conflict of contract laws and analyses the consequences of the freedom of choice of law as well as its limits in light of the Rome I Regulation and the Inter-American Convention on the Law Applicable to International Contracts. Key words: freedom of choice of law, Rome I Regulation, non-state law, mandatory rules, public order

Overview of Licensing Platforms based on Distributed Ledger Technology

The licensing of creative work is of broad and current interest. The European Commission proposes that when uploading a licensed digital work, the uploader should be checked by the system that one has the necessary rights. Technically this law is difficult to implement, as images with different intentions are shared, and even small changes like watermarks make it difficult to reveal similarities. The characteristics of distributed ledger technology could provide excellent support for the licensing and management of the rights of use. In this work, non-technical and technical criteria are defined to achieve an overview of the state-of-the-art solutions in the field of blockchain-based licensing platforms. Based on the criteria, different licensing platforms are reviewed, and the results are presented in a comparison matrix