Åke Grönlund

Åke Grönlund is Assistant Professor in Informatics at Umeå University and Director of the Center for Studies of IT in the Public Sector (CSIPS). His research focuses on emerging uses of ICT such as electronic services in an organizational context, ICT strategies, business organization, use, and usability, most prominently electronic government and e-democracy. Current projects include regional development, local democracy and mobile work, and the recently started Democrit research program on IT and democracy. Professor Grönlund has served for many years as a consultant in international European research and development projects in the field of electronic services development, management, and evaluation. Most recent international publications include “Managing Electronic Service–A Public Sector Perspective” (Springer, 2000), “Democracy in an IT-Framed Society” (Communications of the ACM, January 2001), and three recent books in Swedish on electronic services, local e-democracy and electronic government.

Publications

When SNS Use Doesn't Trigger E-Participation: Case Study of an African Authoritarian Regime
When SNS Use Doesn't Trigger E-Participation: Case Study of an African Authoritarian Regime
Wairagala Wakabi, Åke Grönlund. © 2019. 18 pages.
Numerous scholars have concluded that there is a correlation between use of social network sites (SNS), particularly for news and information acquisition or community building...
When SNS use Doesn't Trigger e-Participation: Case Study of an African Authoritarian Regime
When SNS use Doesn't Trigger e-Participation: Case Study of an African Authoritarian Regime
Wairagala Wakabi, Åke Grönlund. © 2015. 16 pages.
Numerous scholars have concluded that there is a correlation between use of social network sites (SNS), particularly for news and information acquisition or community building...
Systematising the Field of Mobile Assisted Language Learning
Systematising the Field of Mobile Assisted Language Learning
Olga Viberg, Åke Grönlund. © 2013. 19 pages.
This study provides a systematic review of mobile assisted language (MALL) research within the specific area of second language acquisition (SLA) during the period of 2005-2012...
The Örebro City Citizen-Oriented E-Government Strategy
The Örebro City Citizen-Oriented E-Government Strategy
Andreas Ask, Mathias Hatakka, Åke Grönlund. © 2010. 21 pages.
This article discusses practices, opportunities, and challenges in local e-government project management by means of a case study involving interviews, document studies, and an...
The Örebro City Citizen-Oriented E-Government Strategy
The Örebro City Citizen-Oriented E-Government Strategy
Andreas Ask, Mathias Hatakka, Åke Grönlund. © 2009. 21 pages.
This chapter discusses practices, opportunities, and challenges in local e-government project management by means of a case study involving interviews, document studies, and an...
The Örebro City Citizen-Oriented E-Government Strategy
The Örebro City Citizen-Oriented E-Government Strategy
Andreas Ask, Mathias Hatakka, Åke Grönlund. © 2008. 20 pages.
This article discusses practices, opportunities, and challenges in local e-government project management by means of a case study involving interviews, document studies, and an...
E-Gov Research 2003-2006: Improvements and Issues
E-Gov Research 2003-2006: Improvements and Issues
Åke Grönlund, Annika Andersson. © 2007. 22 pages.
This chapter follows up on an earlier study (Grönlund, 2004) by assessing the nature of 117 papers from two e-gov (electronic government) conferences, EGOV 05 and HICSS 06, in...
Electronic Government: Design, Applications and Management
Electronic Government: Design, Applications and Management
Åke Grönlund. © 2002. 388 pages.
While not specifically defined, Electronic Government has become a common term to describe all of the processes, administrative and democratic, that combine to constitute public...