The Maturity Level of E-Governance in Iran Ministry Portals

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E-Governance is related to the use of approprairte technology for increasing public relation that promotes democratic declaration of oponion and human independence, supporting of economical development & delivering services failry & efficiently. In order to achieve the aim in the IT age, public institutions constrained to have digital portals. These portals should be privacy respected, devilver information & service user friendly and providing some capabilities for citizens’ participation. Minsity websites are portals that citizens have most realtion with them. In this paper, we studied 18 portals of Iranian ministry in order to explore the level of maturity of e-govrence in each of them. For these aim, the study used United Nations check list. The results of mean scores show that the portals are in less mature level and need more attentions. At the end some recommendations are provided, in order to improve the quality and quantity of the portals.

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Journal of Public Administration
Volume 8, Issue 3
March 2016
Pages 487-510

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