Online dissemination of information on sustainability in regional governments. Effects of technological factors

Navarro‐Galera, Andrés; Alcaraz-Quiles, Francisco José; Ortiz-Rodríguez, David

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2015.12.003

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“…The Internet enhances transparency in democratic states by enabling easy, cost-free access to government and policymaking documentation, even if information overload sometimes means it cannot be readily processed [75]. Our study, following the approach adopted in previous work in this field [54,59], examined the websites of 91 LGs to determine their level of online transparency on sustainability.…”

Section: Empirical Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some previous studies have analysed the disclosure of general or financial information on LG websites [16,53]. In recent years, studies of sustainability transparency in public administration and public utilities have also appeared [17][18][19][54][55][56][57] and several papers have analysed the disclosure of sustainability information by LGs. For example, one study [17] described an exploratory analysis of six European cities, while another [58] focused on the annual sustainability reports of four LGs in Australia.…”

Section: Sustainability Transparency and Administrative Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enhancing Sustainability Transparency in Local Governments—An Empirical Research in Europe

2018

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In the current socioeconomic context, the question of local government sustainability transparency is of great interest to policymakers, managers, citizens and other stakeholders, and yet one to which previous research has devoted little specific attention. At the same time, the Internet has become an instrument of good governance worldwide and government entities in Europe have strived to promote e-government to improve transparency towards citizens. The aim of this study was to identify factors that can help politicians and managers improve practices of sustainability information disclosed by European local governments. To do so, an empirical study was conducted of 91 municipalities in nine countries, comparing three main administrative cultures. Our analysis of the study results highlights various demographic, socioeconomic, financial and legal factors that may be useful to policymakers and managers in promoting the online provision of sustainability information in Anglo-Saxon, Nordic and Southern European countries.

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Section: Sustainability Transparency and Administrative Culturesmentioning

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2018

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“…Dashboard screens have recently become favored by governments in open government efforts to augment transparency and to get citizens and businesses interested. This should bring extra efficiency and should also promote the population's trust of the government [25], [26].…”

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PREDIX: A New Tool for Measuring Disaster Resilience Index Performance of Community Health Center

Oktari¹,

Rahman²,

Liansyah³

et al. 2019

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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A Puskesmas is the singular Indonesian term for a Community Health Center, hereinafter termed as a Puskesmas Community Health Center or simply a PCHC. A PCHC operates under government directives at the sub-district level in Indonesia. A PCHC provides extensive services for the development of health and bolsters such health endeavors at the public-level and at the individual-level. A PCHC is a critical protagonist in reducing the problems created by a disasters hence the concept of the resilience of the PCHC in the face of disaster needs to be promoted. The aim of the present study was to design a Dashboard Screen Toolkit (DST) for performance monitoring and evaluation based on a canvas of PCHC resilience. The authors have developed a "PCHC' Resilience to Disasters Index (PREDIX)" which is a computer interface or dashboard for visualizing PCHC resilience indicators. This means that disaster prevention personnel can monitor of PCHC resilience index performance data using a transparent and easy-tooperate medium. The stages of creating a DST for PREDIX has these steps: identifying parameters and indicators/indices of the PCHC resilience; evidence of design feasibility; building the technology connectivity roadmap for hosting the DST; catering for multiple platforms, and creating pertinent systems as a basis for the incorporation of fine-scale data. A conceptual model was built for documenting the components of the measurement process of the disaster resilience of a PCHC, incorporating potential measures for the production of a real-time evaluation tool-kit. The model has five parameters for measuring the disaster resilience of a PCHC, which are: real-time conditions of structures, institutional issues, the work force and personnel, external networks, and exposure to disaster. The PREDIX DST, hereinafter termed as PDST gives a visual interface to channel bulk information onto an interface monitor. The PDST complements strategic decision making with the goal of increasing the disaster resilience of a PCHC. The PDST provides charts that display structural and non-structural resilience measurements of PCHC. The PDST can also become enabled for the Internet. This innovative tool kit will help to tracking the progress of the disaster resilience of a PCHC. The PDST will aid policy makers regarding any necessary increase in PCHC resilience to disasters.

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“…In Spain [41] find that social and environmental information on the reports of Spanish municipalities is very rare, especially compared to financial information and it may be influenced negatively by the presence of conservative political parties in the government. For the same country [42] and [43] find that the quantity of sustainability information in regional governments' reports is dependent on socio-economic factors such as population density and level of education, and on e-government factors such as broadband availability. Legitimacy and accountability reasons are the motivations for sustainability reporting in Italian local councils [44].…”

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Drivers and Barriers of Sustainability Reporting in the Greek Public Forest Service

Papaspyropoulos¹,

Karamanolis²

2016

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The present research focuses on the Public Forest Service's accountability practices. The Public Forest Service in Greece is used as a research case. This organization produces annually an "Activity Report" based on lagging indicators, presenting to the public past activities in order to manage forest and natural resources in Greece. However, there is no information about negative impacts, no target setting and no indication about sustainability reporting practices. Therefore, the factors that could push the Public Forest Service in Greece to improve its sustainability reporting are explored. Discussions with the expert foresters who are responsible for the data collection and construction of the organization's Activity Report take place for finding out the drivers and barriers of improving such a report to a sustainability report. The results show that the determinants can be divided into internal and external and that in the current framework it will be very difficult for the organization to use methods and indicators that could increase its accountability and sustainability reporting practices.

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Online dissemination of information on sustainability in regional governments. Effects of technological factors

Cited by 46 publications

References 67 publications

Enhancing Sustainability Transparency in Local Governments—An Empirical Research in Europe

Enhancing Sustainability Transparency in Local Governments—An Empirical Research in Europe

PREDIX: A New Tool for Measuring Disaster Resilience Index Performance of Community Health Center

Drivers and Barriers of Sustainability Reporting in the Greek Public Forest Service

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