Can You Find It on the Web? An Assessment of Municipal E-Government Transparency

Bearfield, Domonic A.; Bowman, Ann O'm.

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“…They can also help to promote other qualitative characteristics of the information (Caba et al, 2008;Pina et al, 2010), such as timeliness, comparability, possibility of re-using the information and understandability, and foster a more extensive interaction with citizens (Cohen et al, 2017). According to Bearfield & Bowman (2017), the use of SM can facilitate the evolution from the old paradigm of making information available online to a newer paradigm that really engages citizens. However, citizens' engagement levels seem to vary from platform to platform, Facebook being preferred to Twitter as a means of participating in local government issues (Haro- de-Rosario et al, 2018).…”

Section: The Role Of Web 20 and Social Media In Financial Transparencymentioning

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Financial Transparency in the Web 2.0 Era. An Analysis of the use of Websites and Social Media by Spanish Municipalities

Royo-Montañés¹,

Yetano²,

García‐Lacalle³

2020

RC-SAR

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El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar el papel de las páginas web y medios de comunicación social en el aumento de la transparencia de tipo financiero en las entidades locales. Esta investigación analiza 60 ayuntamientos clasificados en 4 niveles de población y combina análisis cuantitativos y cualitativos: un análisis del contenido de páginas web; una exploración del uso de medios de comunicación social; y un estudio en profundidad de los contenidos publicados en Facebook y Twitter durante un año. Los resultados muestran que los municipios españoles todavía tienen que realizar esfuerzos significativos para aumentar sus niveles de transparencia financiera. La información publicada se centra principalmente en cuestiones de tipo presupuestario. El uso de Facebook y Twitter por parte de los municipios está generalizado. Sin embargo, la utilización de estas plataformas para la revelación de información de tipo financiero está muy poco desarrollada. La mayor parte de los municipios de mayor tamaño han creado portales de datos abiertos, aunque la apertura de conjuntos de datos de tipo presupuestario o financiero es muy limitada. Los municipios tienen que realizar esfuerzos importantes para cumplir con las nuevas demandas y requerimientos de transparencia financiera. Deberían tomarse medidas para mejorar la transparencia, particularmente entre los municipios de pequeño y mediano tamaño. Asimismo, también se hace necesario definir qué se entiende por información clara, estructurada, comprensible y reutilizable para proporcionar un marco de revelación común para las entidades del sector público. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the role of websites and social media (SM) in increasing local government financial transparency. The research includes 60 Spanish municipalities classified into 4 population levels and combines quantitative and qualitative analyses: a website content examination; an exploration of the use of SM platforms; and an in-depth study of the content published in Facebook and Twitter over a one-year period. Results show that Spanish municipalities still have to make important efforts to increase their levels of financial transparency. Disclosures are mainly focused on budgetary information. The use of Facebook and Twitter by municipalities has become commonplace. However, their use for financial disclosures is underdeveloped. Most of the biggest cities have created open data portals although the disclosure of budgetary and financial datasets is limited. Municipalities have to make important efforts to comply with new demands and requirements for financial transparency. Measures should be taken to enhance transparency, particularly among medium and small municipalities. A definition of clear, structured, understandable and reusable information is needed in order to provide a common disclosure framework for public sector entities.

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Financial Transparency in the Web 2.0 Era. An Analysis of the use of Websites and Social Media by Spanish Municipalities

Royo-Montañés¹,

Yetano²,

García‐Lacalle³

2020

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“…Distribution across the category codings is also somewhat uneven: the majority of datasets fell into the "efficiency" category (comprising policy and performance), of which policy relevant datasets were the most common. However, there is a significant amount of datasets present in all of the categories apart from enterprise (albeit slightly fewer in the staff category, supporting the claims made by Bearfield and Bowman, 2017). This shows that, in terms of publication priorities, both transparency and efficiency aims are being emphasized, whilst the aim of stimulating private industry has apparently received much less attention.…”

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“…Second, details of the behavior of government staff can be released, especially in terms of hiring practices, meetings with lobbyists, claimed expenses, etc. Again, these would allow potential identification of corruption on the part of officials, though Bearfield and Bowman (2017) have highlighted that departments are typically less willing to release staff behavior data than they are general accounts and spending data.…”

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Explaining download patterns in open government data: citizen participation or private enterprise

Bright

Lee

Margetts

et al. 2019

IJEG

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Open data remains one of the most significant current trends in public administration, with hundreds of projects around the world seeking to open up stores of public sector information for future re-use for a wide range of hypothesized benefits, especially in terms of enabling citizen participation in government. However, as open data has grown, a critical literature has also emerged which questions who the true beneficiaries of open data are, as well as highlighting the high costs it places on government. Hence, systematic research on the actual outcomes of open data projects is urgently needed. This article seeks to contribute to this area. Based on a unique observational dataset scraped from the website data.gov.uk, this article seeks to explain the factors which promote greater levels of downloads of open government data, and thus shed light on the types of values which are actually supported by such programs. We show that downloads of datasets relevant for private sector enterprise far outnumber downloads of data which could enhance citizen participation through stimulating either government transparency or government efficiency. We also show that well updated datasets with high quality metadata are more likely to be Explaining Download Patterns in Open Government Data 2 downloaded. We conclude by supporting currently developing calls for prioritization in open government data programs.

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“…Open Government and E-Government: Concepts, Gaps, Interfaces, and Trends, The study by Bearfield and Bowman (2016) shows the fulfillment of analyses and comparisons of the local transparency measurement by checking whether the information available in smart cities are capable to produce the act of monitoring and the public's capability to evaluate the local transparency. It also suggests the use of social media (especially Facebook and Twitter) as a way to reach public involvement and extent concerning transparency.…”

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Open Government and E-Government: Concepts, Gaps, Interfaces, and Trends

Júnior¹,

Guimarães²,

Segundo³

et al. 2020

Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Can You Find It on the Web? An Assessment of Municipal E-Government Transparency

Cited by 98 publications

References 26 publications

Financial Transparency in the Web 2.0 Era. An Analysis of the use of Websites and Social Media by Spanish Municipalities

Financial Transparency in the Web 2.0 Era. An Analysis of the use of Websites and Social Media by Spanish Municipalities

Explaining download patterns in open government data: citizen participation or private enterprise

Open Government and E-Government: Concepts, Gaps, Interfaces, and Trends

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