The IRMA Community
Newsletters
Research IRM
Click a keyword to search titles using our InfoSci-OnDemand powered search:
|
Achieving Useful Government Accountability and Transparency Websites
|
Author(s): Deborah S. Carstens (Florida Institute of Technology, USA), Stephen Kies (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)and Randy Stockman (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 23
Source title:
Evaluating Websites and Web Services: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on User Satisfaction
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Denis Yannacopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Greece), Panagiotis Manolitzas (Technical University of Crete, Greece), Nikolaos Matsatsinis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)and Evangelos Grigoroudis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5129-6.ch002
Purchase
|
Abstract
With the transition from government to e-government, greater transparency in government accountability has occurred. However, state government budgets and performance reports are voluminous and difficult to understand by the average citizen. There is a need for government Websites to promote public trust while providing understandable, meaningful, and usable government accountability information. The public needs to have access to information that links the outcome of government spending so that government can be accountable for their spending. There are three fundamental functions for government: accountability, budgeting, and policy-making. The chapter discusses literature specifically relating to government accountability resulting in a checklist being developed to provide a mechanism for evaluation of government Websites from a technical and usability perspective. Therefore, it is not only important for a Website to have the government accountability information but to also display it in a useful and meaningful format understandable by citizens accessing the Website.
Related Content
Dina Darwish.
© 2024.
28 pages.
|
Dina Darwish.
© 2024.
28 pages.
|
Muhammad Ahmed, Adnan Ahmad, Furkh Zeshan, Hamid Turab.
© 2024.
33 pages.
|
Pankaj Bhambri.
© 2024.
17 pages.
|
Kaushikkumar Patel.
© 2024.
20 pages.
|
Vijaya Kittu Manda, Arnold Mashud Abukari, Vivek Gupta, Madavarapu Jhansi Bharathi.
© 2024.
24 pages.
|
Pankaj Bhambri.
© 2024.
17 pages.
|
|
|