Information Polity

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Snellen, Ignace

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Lenk, Klaus

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Taylor, John A.

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Raab, Charles D.

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Bannister, Frank

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Meijer, Albert

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Lips, Miriam

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Alican, Fuat

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Projects variously designated "e-society," "e-government," and "e-transformation" initiatives attract increasing attention in academic circles and the business community. They remain in the limelight due almost always to the high costs involved in their implementation, often to their ambitious aims related to social and economic development, and sometimes, though not so seldom, to their failure. One such project with grand ambitions is Turkey's "Information Society Strategy," an integral part of the country's efforts in e-transformation. The aim of this paper is to analyze the project from the perspective of the Turkish software sector, with emphasis on technical and methodological flaws as well as on ethical problems. The overriding goal is to enrich the body of research regarding e-society efforts and the software sector.

Medaglia, Rony

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The use of ICT to enable citizen participation (eParticipation) is expanding, especially at the local level of government. But to what extent is this actually occurring, how can we reliably measure it and what are the variables that affect eParticipation adoption at the local level? This paper tackles these three questions by looking at the case of Italian local government. A data collection tool, validated by a group of experts, was proposed and used to conduct a survey on the official websites of 113 Italian local authorities. Findings from primary data show that, within a context of a low level, overall, of adoption of advanced participatory features, institutional background factors such as scale, socio-economic status and centre-left political orientation are positively associated with greater information and consultation features.

2007 Information Polity

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2007 Information Polity

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