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Volume 5 Issue 2 Special Issue: ECEG 2007 Den Haag
Turkish Local e-Governments: a Longitudinal Study
Aykut Arslan,
Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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This paper reports developments of a longitudinal exploratory study on the Turkish local e-governments between September 2005 and December 2006. 3,228 Turkish local governments constitute the sampling framework of this study. The aim is to give a recent portrait and progress of the Turkish local e-governments in terms of certain “e-“ - topics on a longitudinal scale such as ICT infrastructure, websites and e-services. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part comprises a literature review of local e-government in the country. And the second part, through a two folded perspective, incorporates the findings in general. The methodology for gathering information is based on web scanning (websites of the authorities, governmental online repositories) and interviews with the key personnel in the local governments. The interviews took place mostly as online chats except three local authorities from Istanbul jurisdiction. The findings from the year 2005 indicated that only 969 authorities were online. But the next year, 2006, showed that 1,591 units were online. The purpose of the second study was to explore the degree of change and how this change occurs in a certain time line among those authorities. Despite some theoretical studies in this field, no research was held on local e-governments, particularly, in a longitudinal dimension in Turkey. That’s why this study is unique in terms of covering the overall picture of the local activity on the topic of e-government.
Keywords:
Turkish e-governments (eGovernment), Turkish local e-governments (eGovernment), e-municipality, e-administration, Turkish local governments, e-Turkey.
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