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Recent trends towards openness and technical connectivity have offered the ability to drive massive social and economic change; however they demand a redefinition of relationships. We have observed a move from a polarized world where companies operate in economic markets while governments drive social progress, to an interconnected, networked world of shared resources and co-creation. One of the trends driving this change is open government data. This paper presents a framework of four value generating mechanisms from use of OGD. The framework makes it easier to compare and communicate different pathways to value generation, while highlighting the current tensions between the private/public and economic/social domains. Our proposition is that these tensions bring about possibilites for synergies and value enhancement.

Recent trends towards openness and technical connectivity have offered the ability to drive massive social and economic change; however they demand a redefinition of relationships. We have observed a move from a polarized world where companies operate in economic markets while governments drive social progress, to an interconnected, networked world of shared resources and co-creation. One of the trends driving this change is open government data. This paper presents a framework of four value generating mechanisms from use of OGD. The framework makes it easier to compare and communicate different pathways to value generation, while highlighting the current tensions between the private/public and economic/social domains. Our proposition is that these tensions bring about possibilites for synergies and value enhancement.

In this chapter we outline the Danish and Scandinavian experiences with coalition governments and coalition governance. We do so by first briefly describing the historical path that has led to the political system we see working today in these countries. Then we tell about the political culture and institutional factors that lead to coalition governments. In the third section, we look at the nature of political agreements. We discuss the preconditions for coalition governments or coalition governance and its pros and cons. We focus on the trade-offs between including different interests into legislative coalitions and the possible lack of clarity of responsibility or of party identity that this inclusion entails. ; In this chapter we outline the Danish and Scandinavian experiences with coalition governments and coalition governance. We do so by first briefly describing the historical path that has led to the political system we see working today in these countries. Then we tell about the political culture and institutional factors that lead to coalition governments. In the third section, we look at the nature of political agreements. We discuss the preconditions for coalition governments or coalition governance and its pros and cons. We focus on the trade-offs between including different interests into legislative coalitions and the possible lack of clarity of responsibility or of party identity that this inclusion entails.

Based on the data from a survey of the administrators whose jobs are involved with FDI attraction in Binh Dinh province, this study examines the scope, extent,benefits, costs, risks, operating environment and governance of the cooperation that Binh Dinh province's government has with others in the Key Economic Zone of Central Vietnam from the perspective of the insiders. Research results imply that the cooperation is still of a narrow scope with low intensity. The factors underlying this performance are diversion in perception about the benefits, costs and risks of the cooperation among the people involved; inherent existence of some unfavorable environmental conditions; as well as current lack of professional cooperation governance. To support the expectation of the government to intensify the cooperation, some implications of policies are raised with an emphasis on the necessity to determine appropriate priorities to promote cooperation activities. ; Dựa trên dữ liệu khảo sát các đối tượng có liên quan đến công tác thu hút FDI của Bình Định, nghiên cứu này đánh giá biểu hiện của phạm vi, mức độ, lợi ích, chi phí, rủi ro, môi trường và nội dung quản trị liên kết của Bình Đình với các địa phương Vùng kinh tế trọng điểm miền Trung trong thu hút FDI dưới góc nhìn của người trong cuộc. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy phạm vi và mức độ liên kết vẫn còn ở mức thấp do nhận thức về lợi ích, chi phí và rủi ro liên kết còn chưa rõ ràng, một số khía cạnh môi trường liên kết chưa có nhiều thuận lợi cũng như tính chuyên nghiệp của quản trị liên kết vùng chưa ở mức cao. Trên cơ sở mong đợi của Bình Định sẽ gia tăng phạm vi, chiều sâu và tính chuyên nghiệp của liên kết, một số hàm ý chính sách được đề xuất trong đó nhấn mạnh cần thiết phải xác định hướng ưu tiên phù hợp để tập trung xúc tiến liên kết.

In this book, the author marshals evidence to support an arena-specific approach towards viewing Vietnam's state-society relations. In practice, the Vietnamese party-states relations with society vary from the hard and uncompromising state, with the bureaucracy getting its way, to society's ability to negotiate the state's boundaries and regimes to make them less harsh. Any analysis of Vietnam's state-society relations needs to recognize and demonstrate both elements of dominance and accommodation, as well as specify the context in which either or both are seen. Alone, neither is adequate. In particular, the idea of the "state" needs to be disaggregated because "state" is not a singular actor that is coherent or uniform through time and space. To demonstrate how state-disaggregation can make our view more nuanced, this book analyses state-society interaction at the ward level of Hanoi, an urban local authority