SCRAN’s Development of a Trans-national Comparator for the Standardisation of E-government Services

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the Smart Cities inter-Regional Academic Networkset up to support the development of e-gov(ernment) services across theNorth Sea. It pays particular attention to SCRAN's configuration of thetriple helix and the web-services assembled to support the developmentof a trans-national comparator for the standardisation of eGov servicesas transformative business-to-citizen developments. It suggests thesetrans-national developments are significant for the reason they revealuniversity involvement in such ventures need not be a top-down exercisein the generation of intellectual capital, or creation of wealth, butcan be a bottom-up action in building the social capital required foreGov services to regulate the production of knowledge.