E-Government Appliance Problems on First Degree Self Government of Greece

Goulas, Dimitrios; Kontogeorga, Georgia

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“…The results confirm older research of Goula & Kontogeorga [8] that pointed out that the changes and the projects that are implemented for the appliance of e-gov, are not accompanied by suitable training of employees while concrete deficiencies and needs in the sector of ICT are recorded on this particular group of employees.…”

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How E-gov in Greece Affects Life-long Learning for Public Servants, Working on Technical Field

Goulas¹,

Valkanos²,

Droulia³

2016

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Engineers that work as civil servants cover a wide range of competences, administrative and scientific, which implies that they deal with many difficulties in the exercise of their duties as executives. Electronic government (e-gov), through the use of new Technologies of Information and Communications (ICT) at public technical services, has changed the procedures and the daily operation of public services. These changes create new needs but also new prospects in education/training of public services' executives. In this research, authors made a case study, examining the case of the municipality of Patras, one of the bigger municipalities of Greece. They used the method of review and the quantitative methodological approach. Their objectives concentrated on recording the aspects of Engineers working as Public Employees, regarding new needs, possibilities and choices of training in the frames of e-gov and comparing their opinions with their appositeness and their role in the organization they serve.

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“…Before the economic crisis, there were many researches that noted problems in applying e-government at the Greek Municipalities (i.e. [8]) and delays [9].…”

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How E-gov in Greece Affects Life-long Learning for Public Servants, Working on Technical Field

Goulas¹,

Valkanos²,

Droulia³

2016

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“…Another major barrier to improving the performance of the egovernment is the lack of appropriate skills in the workforce (Moon, 2002;Hahamis et al, 2005;Ganapati and Reddick, 2014;Alexopoulos et al, 2018). Also, the need for technology upgrades is a reality for the greek Municipalities, as also observed by Goulas and Kontogeorga (2009). Although most Municipalities declared that more than € 50,000.00 is spent on ICT and e-government, the lack of financial resources, as pointed out in the responses of the Municipal Representatives remains an impediment (Moon, 2002;Beynon-Davies and Martin, 2004;Hahamis et al, 2005;Ganapati and Reddick, 2014;Alexopoulos et al, 2018).…”

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“…Although most Municipalities declared that more than € 50,000.00 is spent on ICT and e-government, the lack of financial resources, as pointed out in the responses of the Municipal Representatives remains an impediment (Moon, 2002;Beynon-Davies and Martin, 2004;Hahamis et al, 2005;Ganapati and Reddick, 2014;Alexopoulos et al, 2018). On the other hand, according to Goulas and Kontogeorga (2009), the e-government is not at an advanced stage due to the lack of exploitation of EU funding programmes and that is also confirmed by the survey conducted. According to this, almost half of the municipalities spend their own money and a very small percentage of third-party funding.…”

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“…Moreover, a large number of researches investigate individual factors such as: per capita income (Youngblood και MacKiewicz, 2012), type of agency and governance (Moon, 2002;Pina, 2007;Reddick and Norris, 2013b;Bonsón et al, 2015, Feeney andBrown, 2017), geographical location (Nasi et al, 2011), race, metropolitan status (central city, suburban), population size, education (Reddick and Norris, 2013b), lack of knowledge and skills, average age of users (Choudrie et al, 2013), socio-economic status and socio-demographics population characteristics (Lev-On and Steinfeld, 2015), organizational size, internet penetration rate, regional competition (Ma, 2013), communication processes management with other authorities (Hultèn and Björkstrand, 2009), initiation, municipal actualization and rapid scaling-up (Chen et al, 2009) and political stability (Gallego-Alvarez et al, 2010). Microblogging has been studied by Ma (2014) and the use of ICT by Hahamis et al (2005), while other researchers focused on e-government experience (Reddick and Norris, 2013b), sufficient ICT staff, and a dedicated team (Carrizales et al, 2011, Warf, 2014Alexopoulos et al, 2018), effective ICT training and support, the ability to organize effective interfaces with end users (Arduini et al, 2010) and finally the implementation and exploitation of funded programs (Goulas and Kontogeorga , 2009).…”

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Incentives for the Adoption of E-Government by Greek Municipalities

Maditinos¹,

Niki²

2020

IJEBA

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Purpose: The research aims to identify the incentives that play an important role in the evolution of e-government in Greece at local scale and its actual development level. It also investigates the factors and the perceived barriers that affect the development of local egovernment in Greek Municipalities, as well as the benefits they derive from it. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research is based on a survey that was conducted through a questionnaire to all 325 Municipalities of the country and includes data from 109 Municipalities that participated in the quantitative approach. Findings: While e-government is spread at a relatively satisfactory level, it appears that only a few Municipalities are performing well. Results highlight also the two main incentives that motivate Municipalities to adopt e-government: The first is the improvement of the efficiency of information exchange with the external environment and the second is managing internal issues-relationships in conjunction with the existence of prominent IT departments. Amongst the main factors that affect e-government adoption by Local authorities, budgetary constraints stand out, while the lack of personnel specialized in Information Technologies is identified as common obstacle. Practical Implications: Findings suggest that an integrated approach to e-government is needed in order to enable organizations to minimize failures and to overcome barriers and counter risks. The capacity to align e-government applications with the increasing and evolving needs and requirements of the citizens is the key to optimizing the benefits of e-Government at local scale.

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Chemical changes in irradiated polypropylene studied by X-ray photoabsorption and advanced EPR/ENDOR spectroscopies

Caretti

Jiménez

Doorslaer

2014

European Polymer Journal

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Pulsed and Continuous-wave (CW) Electron Paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in combination with X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) analysis is used to study the bulk and surface modification of isotactic polypropylene (i-PP) conducted by X-ray irradiation and O 2 , Ar and N 2 plasma treatments. In all cases, a midchain peroxy radical is the major species detected by CW-EPR, with little delocalization onto the i-PP main chain, as revealed by Xband Mims electron nuclear double resonance and hyperfine sublevel correlation. Besides, surface functionalization of plasma treated i-PP is discussed on the light of XANES results with emphasis in the more complex case of N 2 plasma modification. The article gives a comprehensive picture of the chemical changes that occur in irradiated i-PP, with implications in sterilization, surface activation, and adhesion enhancement procedures.

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E-Government Appliance Problems on First Degree Self Government of Greece

Cited by 4 publications

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How E-gov in Greece Affects Life-long Learning for Public Servants, Working on Technical Field

How E-gov in Greece Affects Life-long Learning for Public Servants, Working on Technical Field

Incentives for the Adoption of E-Government by Greek Municipalities

Chemical changes in irradiated polypropylene studied by X-ray photoabsorption and advanced EPR/ENDOR spectroscopies

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