E-participation Tools Analysis in Municipalities with Extended Powers of the Region of South Bohemia

The thesis analyses and evaluates the tools of e-participation in the municipalities with extended powers of the Region of South Bohemia. The thesis is divided into three main chapters and it contains the theoretical as well as the practical part. The theoretic part consists of two chapters, introducing the problematics of e-government and e-participation. E-government topic is introduced from the national as well as international level and the specific examples of the implementation in the Czech Republic are described. The results of the survey of the ICT usage in the public sector of the Czech Republic are also analysed. The topic of e-participation is analysed in the second chaprter. The practical part of the thesis includes the analysis of the e-participation tools in the municipalities with extended powers of the Region of South Bohemia, which is based on the criterions set in the several blocks of the pattern. The results of the analyses are presented through tables, graphs and comments