Public-private data sharing increasingly depends on frameworks that align participating organisations around shared definitions, responsibilities, rules, and agreements. Yet, organisations are struggling to design these trust frameworks for public-private data sharing. Based on 11 challenges derived from an LLM-assisted systematic literature review on Diffusion of Innovations Theory and Coordination Theory, we develop role-based requirements for a document-grounded conversational assistant intended to support the development and maintenance of public-private trust frameworks. We then prioritised and refined the challenges and requirements through an expert survey. The proposed assistant concept functions as a shared “knowledge navigator” over collaboration documents: it answers questions with traceable sources, surfaces knowledge gaps in the underlying corpus, guides onboarding and participation decisions, and supports agreement drafting and review by generating text while flagging inconsistent terminology as documents evolve. The outcome is threefold: a prioritised set of document-mediated challenges in public-private trust framework development; an expert-refined, role-based set of functional and non-functional requirements for a document-grounded conversational assistant; and a synthesis that places trust framework development along two dimensions, internal versus external and substance versus process.
Louise van der Peet, Nitesh Bharosa, M. Janssen· EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2026· 0 citations
GovTech is emerging as a policy-relevant frame at the intersection of digital government, public procurement, and startup innovation. Yet research remains fragmented and often disconnected from the institutional conditions that shape implementable solutions. This paper develops a stakeholder-validated, dimensional publicness theory informed research agenda for GovTech in the European context using a multiround agenda-setting Delphi study with experts from public administrations, industry, and academia. Synthesizing qualitative inputs and quantitative prioritization, we identify thematic clusters and topic areas, formulate exemplary research questions, and provide rationales that connect each area to concrete governance and implementation challenges. To assess dynamism, we additionally examine perceived relevance trends across two measurement points (2023 and 2025), highlighting where urgency is increasing and where research sequencing is needed. The resulting agenda informs scholarship by clarifying GovTech as a hybrid, regulation-shaped domain and offers entry points for empirical and design-oriented research on ecosystem formation, procurement, regulation, and strategic scaling.
Luca T. Bauer, Nitesh Bharosa, Björn Niehaves· Electronic Markets· 0 citations