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Co-production Through ICT in the Public Sector: When Citizens Reframe the Production of Public Services

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Co-production of public services is well known in the public management literature. Many studies show how co-production makes public services not only more efficient but also more effective. It the recent years, the development of several ICT applications and projects have shown that ICT has the potential to make co-production an easy and common practice for all citizens, changing completely how services are delivered on a large scale. The research, after having presented some existing cases of ICTs application that favorite co-production, shows that using ICT for co-production might help the state to deliver public services that generate Public Value. The paper follows with an in depth analysis according to the Actor Network Theory to understand if co-production through ICT might induce structural changes in the public administration allowing in future citizens to be actively involved in the production of public services. The research will conclude by providing a proposal to implement permanently co-production in the public sector.

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    Andrea Paletti

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  1. Department of Management and Technology, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy

    Leonardo Caporarello

  2. Department of Economics, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Fabrizio Cesaroni

  3. School of Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Raphael Giesecke

  4. Inst. of Sc. and Techn. of Cognition, Rome, Italy

    Michele Missikoff

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Paletti, A. (2016). Co-production Through ICT in the Public Sector: When Citizens Reframe the Production of Public Services. In: Caporarello, L., Cesaroni, F., Giesecke, R., Missikoff, M. (eds) Digitally Supported Innovation. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40265-9_10

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