Significant socio-economic factors for local e-government development in Portugal

Bibliometric Analysis of Portuguese Research in e-government

“…Although 'interoperability and service integration' is the most represented category and 'new model or system proposal' is the more common approach, it is symptomatic that the country achievements in terms of online availability of services, namely the platforms used, do not rely on the models and technologies presented in these articles. Also, local government is the scope of 31% of the articles published, when it is recognized that local e-government is substantially undeveloped in Portugal when compared to central government [9,11].…”

Local development and tourism. The socio-economic impact of digital communication in Portugal

“…Moreover, based on the findings of the aforementioned studies (Dias and Costa, 2013;GallegoÁlvarez, Rodríguez-Domínguez and García-Sánchez, 2010;Gandía and Archidona, 2008;Gaule and Zilinskas, 2013;Huang, 2006;Moon and Norris, 2005;Rufín, Medina and Sánchez-Figueroa, 2012), this work will test the following hypotheses:…”

“…Focusing on the Portuguese case, Dias and Costa (2013) also performed a predictive web content analysis of the population of municipal websites in Portugal. In it, they used a dozen of dichotomous variables (divided into government information, e-services and citizen participation) to test the development level of the local Portuguese administration.…”

Evaluating local e-government maturity in selected Iberoamerican countries

“…E-government, i.e., "the use of information technology to support government operations, engage citizens, and provide government services" [3], affects the consolidation of democracy as a whole. E-government G2C transactions usually begin with an informational approach and then move towards complex interaction [3], [4].…”

“…Many efforts were done during the last two decades in this fruitful field of study, but most of them only tried to evaluate and compare electronic G2C transactions by analyzing this phenomenon in a subnational level [2], [4], [6]- [11]. Some relevant contributions were also made by comparing local websites in a cross-national perspective, as we can see in [12], [13].…”