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Examining the Socio-Technical Impact of Smart Cities
A general guideline which provides clear direction to formulate specific programs.
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Collaborative Governance: A New Paradigm Shift for the Smart Cities
Gedifew Sewenet Yigzaw (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 35
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5326-8.ch001
Abstract
In this 21st century, collaborative governance has got a great attention to resolve socio-economic problems and assure sustainable development goals. It is a new form of governance in which multi-stakeholders, such as the public agencies, private sectors, civil society organizations and international public organizations are working together to build trust in government, resolve societal challenges, assure economic prosperity and development, and bring institutional transformation. This book chapter describes the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of collaborative governance. The author believed that giving some insights on the collaborative governance; conceptual understanding, the dynamics and importance of collaborative governance for building the smart cities, its nexus with development, and measurement parameters for checking its effectiveness, could produce a theoretical and conceptual asset for the other authors who want to make an in-depth investigation on the areas of governance.
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Mitigating Security Risks in Web Service Invocations: Contract-Based Approaches
A policy is a security requirement that a consumer wants to apply to a service execution.
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Organizational Aspects of Cyberloafing
A set of behavioral and procedural written rules that a company drafts as guidelines for its employees.
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Gender and National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Policies in Africa
The course of an action of those in power, governments or official institution, party and sectors. Policy includes vision, goals, principles and plans that guide the activities of different sectors.
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Positioning Library and Information Services for User Satisfaction through ICT Policy Formulation in Nigeria
This is an articulated, deliberate plan of action, principles Local content: which encapsulates over all goals, aims as well as strategies for achieving rational outcome.
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Network Security Policy Automation: Enterprise Use Cases and Methodologies
A broad term that could refer to high level IT policies that support business objectives, detailed technical and procedural requirements for specific areas of IT, or anything in between.
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Creating a Security Education, Training, and Awareness Program
The information security policies are the high-level documents that define the security goals, approach, and strategies of the organization.
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An Information Security Model for Implementing the New ISO 27001
The policy provides the overall intention, direction, principles and values of an organization in accordance to stakeholders’, legal, regulatory and standard requirements and the characteristics of the business, the organization, its location, assets and resources. It is a framework for setting objectives and measuring their achievement.
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Organic Food Production and Consumption Policies and Strategies
Is an activity oriented ideologically to the decision-making of a group to achieve certain objectives.
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US Cybersecurity Laws and Regulations: Current Trends and Recommendations for Improvement
A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual.
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Learning From Abroad on SIM Card Registration Policy: The Case of Malawi
Government activities that are aimed at addressing social challenges and are executed through programs, processes, and politics.
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Information Security Policies: Precepts and Practices
Policy is a set of rules. They’re the dos and the don’ts of information security, again, within the framework of the philosophy.
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Library Photocopy Policies
A plan of action agreed upon or chosen by a political party or business.
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Gender Digital Divide and National ICT Policies in Africa
Is a programme of actions adopted by a person, group, or government or a set of principles; it may be written o unwritten.
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Organic Food Production and Consumption Policies and Strategies
Is an activity oriented ideologically to the decision-making of a group to achieve certain objectives.
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Optimizing Supply Chains Through System Dynamics Modelling and Simulation: Lessons From the Navy
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Effectiveness of Reference Models for Knowledge Organization Systems: A Cross-Analysis of Requirements
Written statement, authorized by the KOS management, that describes the approach to be taken by the KOS for the management of information/knowledge. An example is the Preservation policy that describes the approach to be taken by the KOS for the preservation of objects accessioned into the KOS ( Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, 2011 , p. 1-4, adapted).
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Australia's Government Policy and Broadband Internet Access
A set of government activities, which can be broadly characterized as regulations, national strategies/initiatives, and funding programs.
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Research Policies for Information and Communication Technologies in Europe
A policy is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s). However the term may also be used to denote what is actually done, even though it is unplanned.
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Telecommunications Policy in Nigeria
A governing principle, plan, course of action adopted by government or corporate body.
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods, and Gender Configurations in Zimbabwe
The alternatives that governments chose in order to deal with a specific problem that affects communities.
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Telecommunications Policy in Nigeria
A policy if a deliberate plan of action intended to guide decision.
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Components of a Distance Education Evaluation System
Policy as a chain of decisions stretching from the statehouse to the classroom is a by-product of [many] games and relationships; no one is responsible for the whole thing” (Firestone, as cited by Fowler, 2000 ).
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Information Security Policies
A statement of agreed positions or plan e.g. information security policy.
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ICT Policy Development Process in Africa
A policy is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s).
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Policy Options for E-Education in Nigeria
An overarching plan of action developed for the achievement of a set of goals.
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Economic Crisis in Colombia Due to COVID-19: From Pandemic to Post-Pandemic Actions
Set of plans/ideas followed by governments, business, interest groups, etc.
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Revisiting Governance Theories for Understanding ESG and Sustainability Nexus
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Criteria for the Implementation of Learning Technologies
A plan of action adopted by a government or ministry.
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Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Using Blockchain in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Policy and Regulatory Framework
A set of ideas or plan for action adopted and implemented by any government entities to govern and rule one sector or particular situation.
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A Process Architecture Approach to Manage Health Process Reforms
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Organizing for Innovation in the Armed Forces: A Logical Thinking Process Approach
A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.
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Contemporary Leadership Styles and Challenges for Governance
Refers to guidelines as issued by the governance.
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Advancing a Framework for Entrepreneurship Development in a Bioeconomy
A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual
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Integration of Policies and Regulatory Frameworks for the Convergent ICT Industry in Nigeria
A policy is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s).
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Sectoral Analysis of ICT Use in Nigeria
A plan of action to guide decisions and actions. The term may apply to government, private sector organizations and groups, and individuals.
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Context-Aware Cloud Computing for Personal Learning Environment
A policy is a predetermined action pattern that is repeated by an entity whenever certain system conditions appear.
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Transfer Learning
the mechanism by which a reinforcement-learning agent chooses which action to execute next.
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Critical Issues Surrounding Competency-Based Education in the Digital Age: The “Wickedness Narrative of the Problem”
A set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a government, or a political party.
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A Process Architecture Approach to Manage Health Process Reforms
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Security and Trust in a Global Research Infrastructure
In the context of this chapter, a policy is a published statement describing any or all of infrastructure, community, participants, methods, obligations, requirements, jurisdictions, etc., sufficient for a participant to determine the trustworthiness of the publisher. For example, a federation of identity providers (a special case of the hub in section 3) may have a policy that all users shall have individual identity tokens (i.e. tokens must not be shared.) Some identity providers (i.e. token issuers) within the federation may further require that the tokens carry a reasonable resemblance of the token owner’s name. The policy of the federation, and possibly the individual providers, should be sufficient for a resource provider to determine the LoA (see above) of the federation and whether it is sufficient; possibly they will accept tokens only from the providers that issue named tokens. Of course, it is necessary that a participant with a policy follow the policy – an audit may be required to assuage the resource provider.
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Educational Innovations in Nigeria: Planning, Reasons for Failure, and Prospects
This means a definite course or method of action selected from available alternatives and in light of given conditions to guide and determine present and future decisions.
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Characteristic and Agentic Qualities of Women Leaders Amidst Global Crises: Lessons for Higher Education
Is a course of principled action proposed and/or formally adopted by an institution, collective group, or individual.
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Barriers and Impact of the Digital Economy
Refers to guidelines as issued by the governance.
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Entrepreneurship Policies for Knowledge Economies: Policy Aspects
It is a plan or course of action, of an enterprise, which is intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters to achieve certain goal / solution.
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An Information Governance Policy Is Required for My Institution, What to Do?: Practical Method and Tool Enabling Efficient Management for Corporate Information Assets
A document setting out the guidelines for the various legal, regulatory, normative, and ethical requirements of an area of activity, and identifying the main actors involved in the implementation of governance.
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Entrepreneurship Approach to Higher Education Policy Aspects
It is a plan or course of action, of a government, institution, political party, or enterprise, which is intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters.
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Liberalization of Telecommunications Sector
A plan or course of action intended to regulate conduct of individuals, organizations, etc.
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Telecommunication Management Protocols
Policy is the ability to define conditions for accepting, rejecting and notifying routes according to the actual information.
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Global University Rankings in European Higher Education Policy and Practice: Institutional and National Responses From Slovenia and the Netherlands
A set of official agreements or a plan adopted by an organization, such as the EU at the supranational level, the government at the national level or the university at the institutional level.
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An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Into Sustainable Supply Chain Management
A set of rules adapted by an organization such as a company or government to maintain and further its organizational objectives.
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Distributed Learning Algorithm Applications to the Scheduling of Wireless Sensor Networks
Defines the learning agent's way of behaving at a given time. a policy is a mapping from perceived states of the environment to actions to be taken when in those states.
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Effect of National Culture on Development of International Business in the Sultanate of Oman
A definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, facility, and pursued by a government, ruler, political party, business, etc.
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Role of Social Culture in Evaluation of Internet Policies: The Case of Everyday and Resistant Culture in Greece
A set of long-term and multi-faced decision plans made by state and other policy authorities, aiming to address various aspects and challenges of social living.
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Universal Design for Learning: Accessible Learning Environments and School Development
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Patient Advocacy and the Policy Making Process
Rules to direct behaviors in specific sectors or areas of intervention, established by a government body, called policymaker, invested of the authority to set such rules. The policymakers can be supranational (e.g., the EU Parliament), national (e.g., national Parliaments and Governments), bureaucratic (e.g., departments), sectoral (e.g., utilities regulators), regional or local (e.g., regional or local councils, regional or local healthcare authorities).
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Plastic Pollution and Its Remedies: An Indian Scenario
Plan or principle of action adopted or proposed by an individual, organization, or government.
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OMACS: A Framework for Adaptive, Complex Systems
A specification of desired system behavior that can be used to specify either (1) what the system should do or (2) what the system should not do.
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Organizational Password Policy
A deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s).
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Online Adult Education: Policy, Access, Completion and Equity
It is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. Each university has a set of policies in terms of E-learning.
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Knowledge Sharing in an Organisation: A Practitioner Approach
The formal principles adopted by organisations to guide decision-making and action.
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ONAP: An Open Source Toolkit for Zero Touch Automation
Is a set of rules defining actions to be executed. Typical policies include placement policies, scaling policies, or QoS-related policies.
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Learning-Based Planning
Mapping between the world states and the preferred action to be executed in order to achieve a given set of goals.
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Developing an Effective Online Evaluation System
Policy as a chain of decisions stretching from the statehouse to the classroom is a by-product of [many] games and relationships; no one is responsible for the whole thing” (Firestone, as cited by Fowler, 2000 ).
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Outcomes of Conflicts, International Migration Processes, and Their Impact on the State Security and Social Wellbeing
A system of principles for making decisions and achieving optimal results. The policy directs action toward the achievement of general goals in the performance of specific tasks.
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Quality Management Approach to Workload and Performance Evaluation: Interdependencies for Fair Measures
Prudence or wisdom in the management of affairs. a high-level overall plan embracing the general goals and acceptable procedures especially of a governmental body.
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AIoT Concepts and Integration: Exploring Customer Interaction, Ethics, Policy, and Privacy
Policy encompasses a collection of regulations, directives, or doctrines put forward by an institution, governing body, or authoritative entity to govern behaviours, choices, and protocols within a defined framework.
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Organizational Software Use Policies
A policy is a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s).
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