Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know
Characterizing E-Participation in Policy-Making
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 5 - Volume 5
What Drives Global E-Governance? An Exploratory Study at a Macro Level
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 5 - Volume 05
A new paradigm for designing e-government: web 2.0 and experience design
dg.o '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research
Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance
Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance
Participative Web And User-Created Content: Web 2.0 Wikis and Social Networking
Participative Web And User-Created Content: Web 2.0 Wikis and Social Networking
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Inspired by the reported use of Web 2.0-based applications to stir national revolutions in the Arab World, and the potential of this technology to increase transparency and engage citizens in decision-making processes as documented by research in e-government, this study explores to what extent Arab League nations are using "democratic" features in their government websites and how citizens have responded to these initiatives. It does this by comparing (1) the information access and opportunities for participation offered in their portals with non-Arab countries, (2) and the traffic to governmental websites and number of citizens (viewers, fans, followers) engaged by their social media applications. For this purpose, 160 websites from 82 different countries were examined. Results show that although non-Arab countries allow users to get access to more information and present more social media applications with a higher number of citizens participating on them as viewers, fans, and followers, surprisingly no differences were found in terms of participatory features and local traffic rank in governmental websites. Six countries were selected as case studies to lend evidence to the results.