Organizing E-Government for Small Local Government Organizations

In the paper, taking as a reference the highly fragmented context of Italian Local Public Administration, we suggest the associated management of services as the organizational model Small Local Government Organizations (SLGOs) can adopt to deal with technological and organizational innovation. We argue that, in order to simplify the activation of an associated management of services, SLGOs should define pre-qualification conditions that define a cooperation environment. In the paper we characterize such an environment by defining the concept of Integrated System of Local Government (ISLG) as a technological and organizational platform for the cooperation among public administrations. The definition of ISGL and the adoption of a particular coordinating technology will allow to model situations in which Small Local Government Organizations share, also temporarily, resources necessary for the production and delivering of services to citizens and enterprises.