Comparative Study on Local e-Government “Romania and Turkey”

This paper is designed as a comparative study between Romania and Turkey on certain aspects of local electronic government elements of several localities of those 2 countries. The differences between the countries considered in this study are not neglected, starting with culture (organizational, but not only) and ending with economic aspects. In the paper we will present: the IT framework in which public administration operates (with features on each country); macroeconomic issues with direct impact on the development of e-government - where we present financial information on investments in IT sector in both countries; and the municipal web sites analysis of the countries – were we try to find, using a predefined scale, common elements and differences that arise when we look at the development of the local e-government. Objectives: We will find out why Internet users in Turkey visit and interact more frequently with the Local Administration Web Site than those in Romania. The intention is to build the architecture of a Web site designed to provide good interaction to citizens. Approach: This paper is an in-depth analysis of official web sites of town halls. We used a predefined scale taken from similar studies, but adapted to extract relevant elements. For a more accurate study we compared cities were the difference (in terms of finance and inhabitants) is not too big. Results: As a result we will find out why Internet users in Turkey visit and interact more frequently with the Local Administration Web Site than those in Romania. The Value of this article is the comparative study itself, by this, we may start developing better Web sites, dedicated to the use of citizens