Abstract
Business intelligence is the most powerful part of enterprise information systems (ERP). It is shown that the absence of the counterpart of business intelligence in e-government called civic intelligence (CI) has important negative consequence that are probably more severe than the absence of business intelligence for enterprises.
Missing CI threatens the prosperity of countries and nations as it has crucial negative effects on social processes like the quality of education, health-care research, and research and control of economic processes. Data security of CI is an issue.
Current practices of data security are to a high degree equivalent to virtual massive data shredding. It is a big obstacle for the development of CI.
An architecture of CI allowing satisfactory level of data security is proposed together with organizational and legislative preconditions of CI. The barriers of CI are analyzed.