E-government în municipiile României

• Main Author: Dragoş SABĂU
• Format: Article
• Language: ron
• Published: Babes-Bolyai University 2009-12-01
• Series: Revista Transilvană de Ştiinţe Administrative
• Subjects: e-government; municipalities; level of development; website usability.
• Online Access: https://rtsa.ro/rtsa/index.php/rtsa/article/view/115

<p>In the past two decades a new way of delivering public services has emerged, a method very similar to e-commerce and based on the increasing use of Internet; this new manner is called e-government and its benefits are enormous. This paper focuses on the e-government from the perspective of local institutions, covering all the cities which have municipality rank; it analyzes their websites in order to determine the level of development of e-government and the usability of the websites. The main purpose is to establish the level of e-government and to compare it to the United Nations model of development and to the European Commission maturity model. A second objective is to test if there is a relation between the level of e-government and the number of residents, the main political party at the local level and the usability of the websites. The conclusion is somehow surprising since e-government development is at a relatively medium level compared to the low level of broadband penetration rate and the percentage of people with no Internet skills.</p>