Library guides
Subject: MultidisciplinaryE-government
E-government, also known as electronic government, e-gov, Internet government, digital government, online government or connected government, is a new alternative for interaction between citizens (natural persons) and businesses (legal persons) and the state, regional and local administrations and town councils, among others. It is based on the use of the information and communication technologies (ICT) to design, develop and implement digital tools and environments enabling communication and administrative procedures between citizens and businesses with the administrations and is supported and motivated by constant organizational and legal changes.
Administration and open government
An objective derived from e-government is the achievement of open administration, open government or good governance. A transparent e-government and with open access to public information (open data).
Consorci AOC is a public associative body whose mission is to promote the interoperability of Catalan information systems with the remaining administrations, to create and provide common e-government services, reuse e-government apps and services developed and ensure the identity and prove the will of citizens and the public sector personnel in administrative procedures, as well as confidentiality and non-repudiation in e-communications.
Portal supporting citizens, businesses and administrations in the development and use of e-government means.
Themed blogs linked to the services of the Catalan administrations, provided by Consorci AOC.
Article on open and transparent e-government, from the perspective of the United States and President Barack Obama.
McDermott, P. [Patrice]. (2010). Building open government. Government Information Quarterly, 27(4), 401-413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2010.07.002
Article with a review on the concepts of democracy and open government.
Transparency
One of the foundations of open government is the transparency of the public administrations. Citizens are entitled to know about the decision-making processes of the public administrations, who participates in decision making, who receives funding, and so on. Moreover, they are entitled to have access to multiple information and public documents. The more access citizens have to everything related to the administrations, the more transparent these administrations will be considered.
Transparency Portal of the Government of Catalonia.
Transparency Support Portal of Consorci AOC.
Transparency Portal of the Government of Spain, with institutional information, regulations of interest, and so on.
Webpage featuring the transparency initiatives of the different Spanish autonomous communities.
Catalan Law that aims to establish a system of relations between citizens and the public administration. Based on the knowledge of public activity, citizen participation, the quality of public information and administrative management and the guarantee of accountability and liability in public management.
Spanish Law that aims to strengthen the transparency of public activity, regulate and ensure the right of access to public information and set out the good governance obligation to be fulfilled by policymakers. It is applied to all public administrations and the whole State public sector, among others.
Blog provided by the Consorci AOC as a space devoted to information on resources, initiatives and regulations related to the concept of open data to encourage open government and information transparency.
Article exploring whether the use of e-government improves citizens’ perception of their government, from the perspective of Chinese politics. Among the results, the confirmation that access to information based on government web portals increases citizen satisfaction.
Open data
Open data are datasets produced or compiled by the public administration and available to citizens in accessible and reusable digital formats.
This is a Government of Catalonia website which publishes public data in order to promote the use and re-use of information generated by the government. The data comes from different bodies of the Government of Catalonia and has been sorted into groups in the catalogue.
Datos.gob.es is the Spanish e-Government portal where you can find public data of the Catalog of Public Information of the Public Sector.
This alliance aims to ensure that governments are more transparent and accountable with the final objective of improving the quality of the services citizens receive.
Librarians responsible for this library guide
Elisabet Cervera
Operative subgroup: Librarian for Law and Political Science, Doctoral School Operative group: Library for Learning
