BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES IN

INFORMATION SHARING BETWEEN

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS
Dhata Praditya
European Conference of E-Government 2015
Portsmouth

Outline
Motivation
Objective
Data collection
Findings

Motivation
Information sharing is the management of information through the acts of
partnering, dissemination, and fusion, with the objectives of shared
understanding, consistent decision-making, and coordinated action to
achieve collaborative goals between entities (Crowther, 2014).
More public and private information sharing: number of data, amount of data,
and many organizations.
2. Information system development: from paper-based to web-application, data
management approach.
3. Diversity in arrangement: Centralized vs Decentralized, Bilateral vs
Multilateral connection.
4. Reluctant to share.
5. Failure in implementation: specifically in catastrophe.
1.

a. Point-to-Point

b. Multipoint

Objective
General: To understand information sharing process between public
and private organizations
Phase 1
Literature review
Problems
Reasons to
share
Boundaries

Phase 2
Case Study
Determinants
Best practice:
Setting
Design variables

Phase 3
Initial framework
Hypothesis

Phase 4
Evaluation
Survey
Propose a principle
in public-private
information sharing
implementation

From literature review:

1. Basic reasons to join the information sharing initiatives.
2. Benefits and challenges from Public and Private Organizations
point of view.
3. Correlation between benefits or challenges, and between
benefits and challenges.

Data collection
Articles in
Information
Sharing

Key paper from Dawes (1996) about Interagency

information sharing (IIS): propose 3 perspectives
in discussing IIS.

Interagency
information
Sharing

Other scholars use Dawes findings to assess

benefits and challenges of E-Government:
Gil Garcia (2005, 2007, 2009), Zhang (2005,
2006) but mostly focus on Government point of
view.

E-Government:
G2B

Benefits and
Challenges

Public-Private information sharing articles in

Supply Chain, Public Safety Network and
Standard Business Reporting.

Findings (1)

Derivative

Benefits
Key

Organization
Performance

1. The key benefits of information sharing as IT-artefact

are to generate more comprehensive information and
improve information quality.

Dimensions of information quality from

Klichewski and Scholl (2008) : accuracy,
currency, interpretability and timelines.
2. Public-Private information sharing can be beneficial in
improving public values and organization
performance.
3. Public organizations perceived more benefits than
private organizations add complexity

Public
values

Minimum

Findings (2)
Challenges
1. Challenges can be applied to
all type of organizations, and
could be better so it views
from broader aspect.
2. Resource problem, hierarchy
or structure boundary and
culture problem mostly comes
from Public organizations.
3. Interrelated challenges not
only occur within 1
perspective, but could also
occur among perspectives.