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Gauging e-Government A Report on Implementing Services Among Small American Cities Charles Kaylor, Randy Deshazo University of Michigan & David Van Eck, City of Ann Arbor The Problem Began as practical problem for a city government:
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Gauging e-GovernmentA Report on Implementing Services Among Small American CitiesCharles Kaylor, Randy DeshazoUniversity of Michigan & David Van Eck, City of Ann Arbor
The Problem • Began as practical problem for a city government: • How should Ann Arbor, Michigan invest in web-enabled government? • What technologies are cost-effective? Necessary? Gauging eGovernment
The Problem Process Led to Need for Comparison: • What are other similar cities doing? • How does Ann Arbor stack up? Gauging eGovernment
The Solution • Compare implementation of egovernment functions in Ann Arbor to cities nationwide. • Needs: • An instrument for measuring degree of implementation of various functions • An index that allows broad evaluations and comparisons Gauging eGovernment
Defining eGovernment eGovernment : Visitors to the site can communicate and/or interact with the city in any way more sophisticated than a simple email letter to the generic city (or webmaster) email address provided at the site. Gauging eGovernment
Measuring eGovernment Using our broad definition, only 38 of the 132 cities with populations between 100-200,000 had egovernment at all! Gauging eGovernment
The Matrix Gauging eGovernment
The Matrix—Performance Dimensions Gauging eGovernment
The Matrix—Scoring SCORING KEY: 1- Information about given topic exists at website 2- Link to relevant contact via email 3- Downloadable/viewable forms at website 4- Information exchange takes place on-line Gauging eGovernment
The eScores Total escores for the 38 egovernment cities Gauging eGovernment
Comparing Cities(100-200,000) Mean 34 Median 37 Mode 37 Gauging eGovernment
Comparing Cities(200-499,000) Mean 39 Median 41 Mode 47 Gauging eGovernment
Comparing Cities(Over 500,000) Mean: 53 Median: 50 Mode: 52
Comparing Cities—Top 25 eGovernment Cities Gauging eGovernment
Geographic Distribution of eScores Does not include Anchorage and Honolulu Gauging eGovernment
eGovernment Services • eCommerce • Registrations and Permits • Customer Service • Communication, Documents and Information • Participation Gauging eGovernment
eCommerce Gauging eGovernment
Registration and Permits Gauging eGovernment
Customer Service Gauging eGovernment
Communication, Documents & Information Online GIS Gauging eGovernment
Communication, Documents & Information Audio/Video Gauging eGovernment
Communication, Documents & Information Documents Gauging eGovernment
Participation Gauging eGovernment
Emergent Technologies VIS: Simulation Models Gauging eGovernment
Contact: Charles Kaylor University of Michigan ckaylor@umich.edu (734) 763-1502 Randy Deshazo University of Michigan rdeshazo@umich.edu (734) 763-1502 David Van Eck City of Ann Arbor dvaneck@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us (734) 997-1040 Gauging eGovernment