ICT and Innovation in the Public Sector - European Studies in the Making of E-Government

This book originates from a multiple year research project on ICT and justice in a number of EU countries. Among the project's major objectives was the development of new methodologies for facilitating ICT-based innovation in the judiciary.

FRANCESCO CONTINI is a Researcher at IRSIG (Research Institute on Judicial Systems) of Italy's National Research Council. His research work is on ICT-based organizational and institutional innovation in the Italian and European judiciaries. He edited with Marco Fabri the volumes Judicial electronic data interchange in Europe (Lo Scarabeo, 2003) and Justice and Technology in Europe (Kluwer Law International, 2001)

GIOVAN FRANCESCO LANZARA is professor of Organization Studies and Political Science at the University of Bologna, Italy and since 2006a visiting professor at the London School of Economics - Department of Management, Information Systems and Innovation Group. He studies innovation and learning processes in organizations and institutions, has offered contributions at the intersection of three different fields; Organization Studies, Information Systems, and Political Science, which have been widely published in books and international journals.