Evaluation of Transparency of Governmental Portals (Ministries of Iran)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 MSc. of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

reduce corruption, public trust and establishing a democratic society is one of the key terms in directing the performance of employees and government agencies. There is a mechanism for this vision and it's called transparency. Information is a critical issue for the survival of democracy. With transparency, information between government and citizens established its strong balance until emerging its effective role. With regard to the neccessity of using the internet in transparency, an statistic- mode rivision is developed in order to assess 18 govermental web sites. This research is field research, strategy research, survey and data collection and analysis is a descriptive comparative relationships between variables. The results show that the issue of transparency isnt found its position among the authorities and Web sites ministries are in the transparency initial stage and they the great attention is needed to paid to transparency.

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