Conference Agenda

Government as a Platform (GaaP) represents the notion that governments significantly benefit from the adoption of platform concepts from the private sector. While several governments are already implementing this notion, there is an insufficient understanding of what actually constitutes a successful GaaP approach. We apply a design science research strategy and, based on interviews with 26 experts and a survey, iteratively design and evaluate 10 guiding principles for GaaP. The principles show how technological and governance aspects complement each other and which platform concepts constitute GaaP. Our research has implications for scholars towards a detailed conceptualization of GaaP, while practitioners can use the principles as guidelines for implementation.

City authorities are faced with aversions of traditional traffic participants to shared micromobility services albeit these were deemed as a cornerstone of sustainable urban transportation. At the same time, the connectivity of shared vehicles, i.e. bicycles and e-scooters, should allow city authorities to design smart transportation policies. We investigate how cities can and do use micromobility data to reduce aversion and increase the sustainability of personal transportation. Applying design science research, combining knowledge from literature and expert interviews, we derive ten objectives of data-driven micromobility governance. We present and discuss these objectives in a stage model with five maturity levels. Our stage model includes benefits for citizen acceptance, prerequisites for implementation, and provides an actionable agenda for theory and practice.