In a world in which 50 percent of the population is virtually excluded from the benefits of information and communication technology, bridging the digital gap has become an imperative for the international community, particularly for the industrialized countries. The objective of this study is...

In a world in which 50 percent of the population is virtually excluded from the benefits of information and communication technology, bridging the digital gap has become an imperative for the international community, particularly for the industrialized countries. The objective of this study is...

Of all recent efforts to transform the federal bureaucracy through the use of information technology, electronic rulemaking holds the most potential for enhancing the role of the public in policymaking. In its more expansive formulation, electronic rulemaking would allow citizens to learn about...

ICT development is a recognised priority of the Bulgarian government. There has always been high interest in learning and implementing information technologies. Interest towards Internet technologies has grown mostly on behalf of young people and the business. As of 1999, Bulgaria's government...

Corruption thrives on misinformation and secrecy. In the Global Corruption Report 2003 , Transparency International ( TI ) puts access to information at the top of its agenda. TI catalogues a climate of mistrust that is working against the interests of shareholders and employees in the market...

The major advantage of electronic markets over nonelectronic traditional market places is that trading partners use more sophisticated methods, rules and systems of information exchange. The internet has inevitably boosted this advantage over the last decade, making electronic markets the...

This study analyzes the progress in information and communication technologies (ICT) in eleven MED countries and how they compare to the rest of the world in terms of sector’s sophistication and development. In recent years, most countries of this region opened up their markets for...

Information society represents the proper environment for the efficiency and de-bureaucratization of public administration. This paper aims to analyze some of the opportunities offered by computer technology and the methods to implement such at administrative level. The main qualities of...

The article gives analysis of the current methods to monitor development of e-government technologies development in Russia. The authors provide their own methods of detecting complex problems of e-government development with the expert survey, and its results as well. In the course of the study...

The article presents the results of the five-year e-Government development monitoring in St. Petersburg Administration. The research was focused on the civil servants readiness to use e-government technologies in their work. The study was conducted with using questionnaires in the period of...