Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance: Volume 24 Issue 2

COVID-19 and privacy: a European dilemma

Andrea Renda

This paper aims at discussing the options available to governments when it comes to the use of technology to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

Dynamic interaction of urban development and rural–urban migration: an application of integrated urban metabolism analysis tool (IUMAT) for sustainable city planning

Neha Chhabra Roy, Viswanathan Thangaraj

This study aims to gauge the effect of rural–urban migration and its challenges on the urban development of Bengaluru. This study examines the driving forces behind urbanization…

COVID-19, migration and inclusive cities through e-governance: strategies to manage asylum seekers in Durban, South Africa

Paul Kariuki, Maria Lauda Goyayi, Lizzy Oluwatoyin Ofusori

This paper aims to examine the role of electronic governance (e-governance) in enabling asylum seekers’ access to public services in the city of Durban, South Africa. Because of…

Families_Share: digital and social innovation for work–life balance

Agostino Cortesi, Carlotta Berionni, Carina Veeckman, Chiara Leonardi, Gianluca Schiavo, Massimo Zancanaro, Marzia Cescon, Maria Sangiuliano, Dimitris Tampakis, Manolis Falelakis

The European H2020 Families_Share project aims at offering a grass-root approach and a co-designed platform supporting families for sharing time and tasks related to childcare…

Does the cashless transaction work? An analysis of policy challenges in an emerging economy

Debadutta Kumar Panda, Sriharsha Reddy, Sridhar Vaithianathan

This paper aims to study the adoption of a public policy (cashless transaction system by implementing demonetization) from the institutional and technology adoption theories.

Regulation as a pathway to individual adoption of cryptocurrency

Ludwig Christian Schaupp, Mackenzie Festa, Kevin G. Knotts, Elizabeth A. Vitullo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the antecedents of individuals’ behavioral intention to transact in blockchain cryptocurrency through the theoretical lens of the…

Book review: A Modern Guide to the Digitalization of Infrastructure

Bert Sadowski

Vodafone: large and sclerotic and ripe for takeover?: A regular column on the information industries

Peter Curwen