Trust Drives Internet Use

Internet Use, Transparency, and Interactivity Effects on Trust in Government

This paper asks how internet use, citizen satisfaction with e-government and citizen trust in government are interrelated. Prior research has found that agencies stress information and service provision on the Web (oneway e-government strategy), but have generally ignore applications that would enhance citizen-government interaction (two-way e-government strategy). Based on a review of the lite...

Broken trust drives native health disparities.

Distributing Trust on the Internet

Trustworthiness and dependability are more important than ever for online services. A service that is often unavailable is simply not useful and clients will stop using it. Even worse is a service that has been subverted by an attacker because it may give a wrong answer. Hardware faults are no longer the prime source of system outages; existing systems address reliability successfully. Today, t...

Trust Extortion on the Internet

Dangers exist on the Internet in the sense that there are attackers who try to break into our computers or who in other ways try to trick us when we engage in online activities. In order to steer away from such dangers people tend to look for signals of security and trustworthiness when navigating the Internet and accessing remote hosts. Seen from an online service provider’s perspective it the...

Using Trust on the Internet

Trust is a concept we heavily use in everyday life because it allows us to cope with the complexity of interactions with other people. This concept is also implicitly used throughout the Internet, both in the infrastructure and in the end-user services. Since security problems on the Internet are becoming more and more serious, and thus present a threat to the further growth of the Internet, th...