In an effort to increase turnout at elections the UK government has been piloting electronic voting. At the 2002 local … elections five councils tested remote Internet voting for the first time. Swindon Borough Council conducted the largest pilot …, offering remote Internet voting to all voters. Almost 15,000 voters were surveyed as to their motivation for choosing their …

Internet. A number of pilot projects and initiatives have been instigated by Government to explore the potential of digital …The UK Government has set targets for its services to be available online by 2005. It is hoped that electronic public … economies. While attention initially focussed on the Internet as the key platform for online public service delivery, digital …

citizens and electorates”. Design/methodology/approach – An overview is provided of developments in e‐government before … citizen access to government and public services, there is still much to be learned about how these online services can be … which combines research reports from academics working in the e‐democracy field and from practitioners in government and …

Purpose – The paper aims to provide a benchmark study of the European Union (EU) e‐government policy within the e …‐Europe programme. The main objective of the European strategy for the development of e‐government was that the member states should … public services through the internet. It does not analyse the provision of services through other channels, neither the …

Oxford Internet Institute and Ann Macintosh of the International Tele‐democracy Centre at Napier University undertook the …

critical analysis of the two relevant domains, web site evaluation and e‐government. The methodology used in the case study … regional level. Findings – The proposed framework presents a more holistic approach to e‐government web site evaluation, while … demand site of e‐government. Moreover, a more thorough approach with regard to privacy would have to include metrics to be …

government records and publications in the digital age and to describe how libraries and archives in Australia are responding to … the challenge. Design/methodology/approach – Literature‐ and case‐study‐based conceptual analysis of what makes government … information. Government agencies as well as educational and research institutions are producing increasingly large volumes of …

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review UK government policy on public libraries since 2003, and to examine its … relationship to other forms of demand for public libraries Design/methodology/approach – The published literature from government … have been the subject of sustained interest from UK government, in the form of a range of policy initiatives and …