There is a markedly broad range of definitions and illustrative examples of the role played by governments themselves within the literature on government platforms. In response we conduct an inductive and deductive qualitative review of the literature to clarify this landscape and so to develop a typology of six definitions of government platforms, organised within three genres along a spectrum from fully centralised, through to fully decentralised. For each platform definition we offer illustrative ‘mini-cases’ drawn from the UK government experience as well as further insights and implications for each genre, drawn from the broader information systems literature on platforms. A range of benefits, risks, governance challenges, policy recommendations, and suggestions for further research are then identified and discussed.

在政府平台的文献中，政府本身所扮演的角色有广泛的定义和说明性的例子。作为回应，我们对文献进行了归纳和演绎定性审查，以阐明这一情况，从而制定政府平台的六种定义的类型学，按照从完全集中到完全分散的三个类型组织起来。对于每个平台定义，我们都提供了来自英国政府经验的说明性“小案例”，以及从更广泛的平台信息系统文献中提取的对每种类型的进一步见解和影响。然后确定并讨论了一系列收益、风险、治理挑战、政策建议和进一步研究的建议。