Do transparent government agencies strengthen trust?

Transparent Government Inspections: Using the Internet to Strengthen Civic Competence

Transparency of government inspections enables citizens to pressure companies and public organizations into behaving according to their demands. This paper reports an empirical study into the effects of the increased transparency of inspection services on civic competence. Civic competence is defined as a citizen’s ability to accomplish public tasks. The study indicates that, although citizens ...

Will Open Government make Canada's health agencies more transparent?

Trust-based secure information sharing between federal government agencies

The September 11 attack and the following investigations show that there is a serious information sharing problem among the relevant federal government agencies, and the problem can cause substantial deficiencies in terrorism attack detection. This paper performs a systematic analysis of the causes of this problem; and it finds that existing secure information sharing technologies and protocols...

factors affecting public trust in government agencies in tehran

the current research aims to identify and prioritize the factors affecting public trust in government agencies in tehran. for this purpose, 39 variables that affect public trust were extracted by reviewing the literature of the context, then, they were used for preparing the questionnaire. research methods are descriptive, exploratory, applied and fieldwork. validity and reliability of the ques...

Measuring Electronic Government Readiness in Public Agencies

Governments worldwide are encouraging public agencies to join e-government initiatives in order to provide better services to their citizens and businesses. Hence governments have a need to determine the readiness of individual public agencies to embark in such initiatives (e.g., in order to define policies and improvement programs in case they are not ready). In this paper, I establish this pr...