Enrico Ferro

Enrico Ferro is a contract professor at the Polytechnic of Turin where he lectures on information management and strategies in both the public and the private sector. He also covers a senior researcher position at the Mario Boella Institute (ISMB) where is in charge of the research and policy intelligence activities of the Technology and Business Intelligence Area. Enrico Ferro has worked in a number of projects financed by the European Commission with roles ranging from scientific supervisor to senior expert. He is actively involved in the organization of a number of international academic events dealing with eGovernment and eInclusion (eGOV, DGO, HICSS).

Publications

Smart City Governance for Sustainable Public Value Generation
Smart City Governance for Sustainable Public Value Generation
Enrico Ferro, Michele Osella. © 2019. 16 pages.
This position paper belongs to a series of contributions on sustainable public value generation in urban areas. The article looks at how the complex transition process cities...
Policy Gadgets for Urban Governance in the Era of Social Computing: An Italian Pilot on Telemedicine
Policy Gadgets for Urban Governance in the Era of Social Computing: An Italian Pilot on Telemedicine
Enrico Ferro, Michele Osella, Yannis Charalabidis, Euripides Loukis. © 2013. 16 pages.
The chapter introduces the concept of policy gadgets that may be expressed as the combined use of computer simulations and social media in policymaking. Such a concept is...
Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society
Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society
Enrico Ferro, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Michael D. Williams. © 2010. 858 pages.
Recently, rapid developments in the digital divide have attracted the attention of both the academic and political worlds due to the reduction of information gaps. The Handbook...
Digital Divide and Broadband Access in an Italian Region
Digital Divide and Broadband Access in an Italian Region
Enrico Ferro, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Natalie Helbig. © 2008. 17 pages.
Reducing the digital divide in order to build an information society for all is one of the top priorities for European policymakers. A better understanding of the determinants of...