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Benchmarking Municipal E-Government Services: A Bottom-Up Methodology and Pilot Results

Benchmarking Municipal E-Government Services: A Bottom-Up Methodology and Pilot Results

Joan Batlle-Montserrat, Josep Blat, Ernest Abadal
Copyright: © 2014 |Volume: 10 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1548-3886|EISSN: 1548-3894|EISBN13: 9781466653986|DOI: 10.4018/ijegr.2014100103
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Batlle-Montserrat, Joan, et al. "Benchmarking Municipal E-Government Services: A Bottom-Up Methodology and Pilot Results." IJEGR vol.10, no.4 2014: pp.57-75. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijegr.2014100103

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Batlle-Montserrat, J., Blat, J., & Abadal, E. (2014). Benchmarking Municipal E-Government Services: A Bottom-Up Methodology and Pilot Results. International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), 10(4), 57-75. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijegr.2014100103

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Batlle-Montserrat, Joan, Josep Blat, and Ernest Abadal. "Benchmarking Municipal E-Government Services: A Bottom-Up Methodology and Pilot Results," International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) 10, no.4: 57-75. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijegr.2014100103

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Abstract

Local governments play an important role as the main contact point for citizens and deliver many more and varied services than any other public administration. Nevertheless, the field of local e-government services (or local e-administration) lacks benchmarking methodologies and rigorous surveys. Existing e-government benchmarks mostly address the national level and do not cater for this wealth of locally provided e-services. Cities are also very diverse, but research shows that European cities share an important number of common services, making benchmarking look feasible. The paper proposes a benchmarking methodology to fill this gap, facing the complexity of this multiplicity and variety. It starts by a bottom-up hierarchical catalogue of services created through participation of the cities. The benchmarking goes beyond service provision, so far measured through maturity, and analyses acceptance by users. The paper discusses the parameters introduced and how to measure them. The paper addresses the issue of the presentation of the results, which is important to help city managers to improve the service provision, its quality and acceptance. The methodology was applied in a pilot study of 15 quite diverse medium and large European cities, and its results are presented within the context of validating the methodology introduced.

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