scholarly journals Public-Private Partnerships for Information Sharing in the Security Sector: What's in It for Me?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Van Goethem ◽  
Marleen Easton
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Actors

There is little research on public-private information sharing partnerships within the security sector and the benefits it may bring to both sectors. This contribution uses insights from previous research on the benefits of public-private partnerships from organisational science, information management, innovation economics, and technology studies to examine whether they are also valid within the security sector. In a first phase, this analytical framework is used to screen insights from partners involved in triple-helix collaboration in the field of innovation, technology and security. In a second phase, in-depth interviews are conducted with public and private actors involved in setting up a pilot project where information exchange is central. The research results show that traditional benefits such as increased effectiveness, efficiency, improved relationships, creation of learning opportunities and obtaining a strategic, operational, and/or economic advantage that were found in other contexts are also confirmed in the security sector. In addition, Belgian security actors saw improved decision-making and service delivery, increased personnel safety and a more integrated security chain as potential benefits. Understanding these benefits may facilitate the design of future public-private partnerships in the security sector.

It Takes Two to Tango

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Borchert
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public And Private Stakeholders ◽  
Core Issues

This article focuses on the information requirements of public and private stakeholders engaged in critical infrastructure protection (CIP).With its emphasis on information management rather than information sharing, the article builds on existing research suggesting that the notion of information sharing inadvertently renders cooperation more difficult as it evokes impressions of information “dominance” rather than joint information ownership. The article proposes a joint public-private information management agenda based on core issues providing actionable information to tackle immediate threats and crosscutting issues looking at the long-term issues that are relevant to understand the overall context in which critical infrastructure development occurs.

scholarly journals Partnering for good? An analysis of how to achieve sustainability-related outcomes in public–private partnerships

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-511
Author(s):  
Katharina Spraul ◽  
Julia Thaler
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Process Elements

Abstract Since 1987, members of the United Nations have strived for improving sustainability to fulfill the vision of sustainable development. Current discussions focus on the role of collaborations between public and private actors to realize social, ecological, and economic sustainability. This study explores how public–private partnerships may contribute to the achievement of sustainability-related outcomes by analyzing a longitudinal case in the German public bathing and swimming pool sector. The empirical findings illustrate how both external conditions, such as regulation or industry-self regulation, and internal elements, such as specific structure and process elements of the public–private partnership, contribute to sustainability-related outcomes. Results reveal an interaction of specific external conditions and some internal elements. Our findings serve as a starting point for further empirical investigations of the sustainable provision of public services via public–private partnerships, and form a basis for theory development. The revealed insights result in practical implications for partners involved in public–private partnerships.

scholarly journals Healthcare public-private partnerships in Italy: Assessing risk sharing and governance issues with PESTLE and SWOT analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 122-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Moro Visconti
Keyword(s):  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Project Finance ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Strategic Issue ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Procurement Risk ◽  
Public Strategies

Healthcare infrastructural investments are a key strategic issue in countries such as Italy, whose aging population faces severe public budget constraints, exacerbated by the unprecedented recession. The choice between traditional procurement (TP) and Public Private Partnerships/Project Finance (PPP/PF) is by now a cornerstone of public strategies concerning complex infrastructural investments. PESTLE and SWOT strategic analysis provides a systematic and comprehensive reflection of the external and internal operational environment but has infrequently been applied to infrastructural procurement. Risk sharing between public and private actors and consequent corporate governance and ownership issues are still under-investigated in the literature, especially if associated with innovative PESTLE and SWOT instruments. Evidence shows that PESTLE and SWOT analysis improves procurement choices and public-private partnering, softening governance concerns. Since empirical considerations about Italy may be globally extended, even beyond the healthcare industry, the audience of this study may conveniently widen well beyond its apparently narrow focus.

scholarly journals PURA-SCIS Protocol: A Novel Solution for Cloud-Based Information Sharing Protection for Sectoral Organizations

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2347
Author(s):  
Fandi Aditya Putra ◽  
Kalamullah Ramli ◽  
Nur Hayati ◽  
Teddy Surya Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Privacy Preservation ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Public Verifiability

Over recent years, the incidence of data breaches and cyberattacks has increased significantly. This has highlighted the need for sectoral organizations to share information about such events so that lessons can be learned to mitigate the prevalence and severity of cyber incidents against other organizations. Sectoral organizations embody a governance relationship between cross-sector public and private entities, called public-private partnerships (PPPs). However, organizations are hesitant to share such information due to a lack of trust and business-critical confidentially issues. This problem occurs because of the absence of any protocols that guarantee privacy protection and protect sensitive information. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel protocol, Putra-Ramli Secure Cyber-incident Information Sharing (PURA-SCIS), to secure cyber incident information sharing. PURA-SCIS has been designed to offer exceptional data and privacy protection and run on the cloud services of sectoral organizations. The relationship between organizations in PURA-SCIS is symmetrical, where the entities must collectively maintain the security of classified cyber incident information. Furthermore, the organizations must be legitimate entities in the PURA-SCIS protocol. The Scyther tool was used for protocol verification in PURA-SCIS. The experimental results showed that the proposed PURA-SCIS protocol provided good security properties, including public verifiability for all entities, blockless verification, data privacy preservation, identity privacy preservation and traceability, and private information sharing. PURA-SCIS also provided a high degree of confidentiality to protect the security and integrity of cyber-incident-related information exchanged among sectoral organizations via cloud services.

scholarly journals Can Public-Private Partnerships Foster Investment Sustainability in Smart Hospitals?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Moro Visconti ◽  
Laura Martiniello ◽  
Donato Morea ◽  
Elisa Gebennini
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Care Patient ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Elder Patients ◽  
Capital Rationing ◽  
Public Money ◽  
Smart Hospitals ◽  
Private Actors

This article addresses the relationship between Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and the sustainability of public spending in smart hospitals. Smart (technological) hospitals represent long-termed investments where public and private players interact with banking institutions and eventually patients, to satisfy a core welfare need. Characteristics of smart hospitals are critically examined, together with private actors’ involvement and flexible forms of remuneration. Technology-driven smart hospitals are so complicated that they may require sophisticated PPP. Public players lack innovative skills, whereas private actors seek additional compensation for their non-routine efforts and higher risk. PPP represents a feasible framework, especially if linked to Project Financing (PF) investment patterns. Whereas the social impact of healthcare investments seems evident, their financial coverage raises growing concern in a capital rationing context where shrinking public resources must cope with the growing needs of chronic elder patients. Results-Based Financing (RBF) is a pay-by-result methodology that softens traditional PPP criticalities as availability payment sustainability or risk transfer compensation. Waste of public money can consequently be reduced, and private bankability improved. In this study, we examine why and how advanced Information Technology (IT) solutions implemented in “Smart Hospitals” should produce a positive social impact by increasing at the same time health sustainability and quality of care. Patient-centered smart hospitals realized through PPP schemes, reshape traditional healthcare supply chains with savings and efficiency gains that improve timeliness and execution of care.

scholarly journals What Blockchain Are We Talking About? An Analytical Framework for Understanding Blockchain Applications in Agriculture and Food

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan van Wassenaer ◽  
Cor Verdouw ◽  
Sjaak Wolfert
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Digital Transactions ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
Agriculture And Food

With the many promises it holds in addressing problems concerning information exchange and digital transactions in multi-actor processes, blockchain technology (BCT) has gained considerable traction in the agrifood sector. Governments, international organisations, private companies, consortia of public and private actors are launching various blockchain projects for improving transparency, traceability, and many other key issues in the agrifood sector. This has resulted in a large number of use cases. It is often unclear, however, what and how technical, social and economic aspects were considered in different usecases. Due to the novelty and elusiveness of the technology, there is no ready-to-use analytical framework or guideline yet for assessing its applicability and choosing the right technical and organisational setup. As a result, many stakeholders have to grope in the dark when designing and implementing their “blockchain application.” Based on studies of use cases worldwide and experiences in organizing different blockchain pilots in the Netherlands, this paper seeks to address this problem by providing an overview of the choices to be made at three layers of a blockchain application: the ledger, the governance structure and the ecosystem. This can serve as a reference framework for understanding different blockchain applications and choosing key parameters for new use cases in the agrifood sector. It is expected that such demystification of the blockchain will contribute to more realistic and effective application of the technology to pressing problems in agriculture and food.

scholarly journals ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND ITS ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florina Popa
Keyword(s):  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
The Impact

The advantages and disadvantages provided by joining in public-private partnership reveal the challenges the economies are constrained to, pursuant to the impact of PPP on certain economic processes. There are identified forms of public-private partnership, which, in their development, are based on a number of factors: the actors involved, the origin of the financial resources, the duration of the contract, the existing traditions, types of agreement in relation to the way of sharing responsibilities and risks between public and private actors. The paper reveals studies achieved on the elements of public-private partnership, advantages, disadvantages they highlight, the forms of partnership grouped in relation to different factors, the stages pursued in the initiation of public-private partnership projects.

scholarly journals A Review of public private partnerships around girls' education in developing countries: flicking gender equality on and off

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Unterhalter
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Integrated Policy ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Policy Texts

AbstractThe article reviews the literature on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and policy on girls’ schooling in developing countries. It considers the ways in which aims around gender equality and women's rights are positioned in policy texts concerned with girls’ education PPPs. The argument made is that these documents exemplify an oscillation, using a multipolar register, between pragmatic initiatives that recognise existing sites of power, and attempts to develop a political project that dissolves differences between public and private constituencies, who share an interest in getting girls into school. The potential and limits of this approach to support integrated policy around rights and equalities is considered using the case of DFID'sGirls’ Education Challenge. An analytical framework is sketched that maps a political and epistemological process termed dispersal, which is used to consider some ways to investigate the effects of PPPs as a mechanism to address intersecting inequalities.

Listening for the “Still Small Voice” of Mendelssohn’s Domestic Elijah

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-77
Author(s):  
Peter Mercer-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Second Phase ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Will To Live ◽  
Three Phases

The notion that there might be autobiographical, or personally confessional, registers at work in Mendelssohn’s 1846 Elijah has long been established, with three interpretive approaches prevailing: the first, famously advanced by Prince Albert, compares Mendelssohn’s own artistic achievements with Elijah’s prophetic ones; the second, in Eric Werner’s dramatic formulation, discerns in the aria “It is enough” a confession of Mendelssohn’s own “weakening will to live”; the third portrays Elijah as a testimonial on Mendelssohn’s relationship to the Judaism of his birth and/or to the Christianity of his youth and adulthood. This article explores a fourth, essentially untested, interpretive approach: the possibility that Mendelssohn crafts from Elijah’s story a heartfelt affirmation of domesticity, an expression of his growing fascination with retiring to a quiet existence in the bosom of his family. The argument unfolds in three phases. In the first, the focus is on that climactic passage in Elijah’s Second Part in which God is revealed to the prophet in the “still small voice.” The turn from divine absence to divine presence is articulated through two clear and powerful recollections of music that Elijah had sung in the oratorio’s First Part, a move that has the potential to reconfigure our evaluation of his role in the public and private spheres in those earlier passages. The second phase turns to Elijah’s own brief sojourn into the domestic realm, the widow’s scene, paying particular attention to the motivations that may have underlain the substantial revisions to the scene that took place between the Birmingham premiere and the London premiere the following year. The final phase explores the possibility that the widow and her son, the “surrogate family” in the oratorio, do not disappear after the widow’s scene, but linger on as “para-characters” with crucial roles in the unfolding drama.

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