Renáta Máchová

Reframing E-Government Development Indices with Respect to New Trends in ICT

Abstract E-government readiness is an important indicator of the quality of a country’s technological and telecommunication infrastructure and the ability of its citizens, businesses and governments to adopt, use and benefit from modern technologies. To measure and compare selected countries, a lot of benchmarking and ranking indices have been introduced since the beginning of the century. With the increasing importance of trends such as cloud computing, open (big) data, participation tools or social media, new indicators and approaches need to be introduced in the measuring of the e-government development, and the existing indices should to be updated, redefined and restructured. Therefore, this article explores the structure of the existing e-government development indices to show the main indicators and trends. Then, it proposes and implements a new framework to evaluate e-government development using these new trends in ICT. It also examines and compares a basic background on the e-government development, benefits and risks of cloud computing, open (big) data and participation tools in the public sector. Based on the newly proposed framework, the e-government development index is calculated for each EU Member State to clearly identify the indicators to have an influence on the e-government development. In the last part, these results are compared to the already existing indices to validate the conformity of the rank methods using Kendall rank correlation coefficient.

Evaluating the Quality of Open Data Portals on the National Level

Over the last few years, governments worldwide have started to develop and implement open data initiatives to enable the release of government data in open and reusable formats without restriction or charge for their use by society. As a result, a large number of open data repositories, catalogues and portals have been emerging in the world. The efficient development of open data portals makes it necessary to evaluate their quality systematic, in order to understand them better and assess the various types of value they generate. Citizens also expect data disclosed by official authorities to have quality in the sense that they are official data and therefore should be accurate and reliable. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to examine and compare the quality of these portals. For this purpose, a benchmarking framework is proposed and validated to evaluate the quality of open data portals on the national level. The results obtained show that the number of datasets online and the sophistication of open data portals and their functions differ, reflecting the lack of harmonization and the need for quality standards. In particular, the United Kingdom, India and the United States have published many datasets and launched advanced portals.

Affect e-commerce services the use of services offered by eGovernment?

The design and implementation of information systems, and from the perspective of effective communication, information technologies play an important role in specifying ways of company behaviour as such. It is hard to decide what individual companies consider to be important, what their initial knowledge about the use of the Internet is, or what experience with the public administration services they have. This study is dedicated to the question of whether using e-commerce services affect the use of services offered by eGovernment. Another aim of this study is to try to identify the basic characteristics determining the relationship of companies towards electronic services B2B, B2C and B2G.

Impact of E-government Development on the Level of Corruption: Measuring the Effects of Related Indices in Time and Dimensions

Abstract E-government is recognized as a tool for improving transparency and openness in the public sector and for combatting corruption. Understanding the relationship between e-government development and the level of corruption would allow for a more effective leveraging of related projects in anti-corruption efforts. This paper examines the impact of e-government development on the level of corruption in the context of economic perspective. In contrast to previous studies, this empirical relationship is measured across sub-indices (dimensions) of related indices between 2002 and 2016. The results show that higher levels of e-government development are related to lower levels of corruption. The three most important dimensions found are the environment sub-index, which assesses the extent to which a country’s market conditions and regulatory framework support entrepreneurship, innovation, and ICT development; the usage sub-index, which assesses the level of ICT adoption by a society’s main stakeholders; and the telecommunication infrastructure sub-index measuring a country’s ICT infrastructure capacity. Following these findings, certain ways of influencing of the level of corruption by a stimulation of concrete e-government development dimensions can be drawn. This is important especially in the time of a financial crisis and its consequences, which are also discussed in this paper.

Government Enterprise Architecture for Big and Open Linked Data Analytics in a Smart City Ecosystem

Opening up government data introduces a change about how governments operate and how stakeholders use data. At the same time, the large amounts of data need to be collected, processed, transmitted, and published with the aim of enhancing the quality of urban life. Now, these trends are shaping smart cities efforts in the public sector. This paper aimed to clarify the concepts of enterprise architecture, big and open linked data analytics, and smart city and how they are related to each other. A conceptual framework was proposed to analyze the requirements of BOLD analytics in a smart city ecosystem. This was contextualized by decomposing selected smart city architectures that served as a basis for understanding the interrelationships between components. This framework can be used as a guide to help developers and designers in creating government enterprise architectures for BOLD analytics in smart cities.