This paper, a case-based research, aims to find to what extent social media applications such as WeChat can contribute to solving the dilemma of ‘Three-Long & One-Short’ (long waiting time for registration and payment, long waiting time for getting medicine, long waiting time for treatment and short time of diagnosis) dilemma in Chinese large public hospitals. To achieve this objective, the case of implementati...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-27T19:23:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-01-01; One of many challenges in a web information systems is the capability of staying stable and available as the number of users and requests increase rapidly, what we call scalability. This paper provides a model based on development of events-oriented applications, non-blocking in the environment Node. JS...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-27T19:23:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-01-01; The data growth enhances the need of a method and paradigms responsible to deal with high scalability, reliability and fault tolerance in large amounts of data. Big Data is a framework capable of dealing with this need. This research makes usage of Apache Hadoop, and a Virtual Private Server (VPS) to an...
A major goal of governments today is to provide quality services, being their biggest challenge to implement tools that meet citizens' needs. For many years, the various levels of public administration, including municipalities, worked in a bureaucratic logic, making it difficult to provide services of excellence. E-government tried to overcome this problem. This article will analyse the impacts of administrati...
In this article we present an innovative application that was developed for the initiative "26 days tour around the globe", an event that was part of the World Bike Tour São Paulo 2011. The application uses Google Maps, Google Earth and server-push technology to represent in real time Web the virtual position of 12 stationary bikes that were used to produce clean energy for the event. Because a huge number of c...
With this text we discuss – building from two illustrative Portuguese cases – the role and relevance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the fight against corruption and in the promotion of better transparency and accountability in government. Starting with a consistent definition of corruption and a distinction between political and administrative corruption, we will consider the opportuniti...
In this paper, we propose a generic model for one-stop e-government and a distributed architecture for its implementation. The model follows a very basic paradigm: the public administration is composed of an unstructured network of entities that upload and download information objects to/from each other and to/from service repositories in order to deliver client-centered services. The architecture is based on w...