The current popular methods of organizing and searching of governmental information resources was analyzed under the circumstance of building Practical e-government integrating website, in this paper, and its metadata was also discussed. In order to solve the problem of information segregate, the framework of e-governmental information resources management was proposed by using metadata. Furthe...

Democratic governments constantly need to make sense of their citizens’ needs to make appropriate decisions that reflect the overall wishes and needs of the population. However, except for mandatory voting scenarios, a low rate of citizen participation in government decisions through democratic processes is an aspect that defies democracy itself. Brazil’s participatory budget policy emphasizes ...

A number of separate studies have concluded that governmental organizations could greatly improve their efficiency as well as their quality of service by embracing state of the art IT. However, in reality few of the potential benefits are actually leveraged. Even those organizations that have succeeded in establishing online service delivery often fail in transformational aspects such as servic...

The distribution of the German government between Bonn and Berlin calls for the technical support for the collaborative document-based tasks performed by interand intra-ministerial work groups. The currently available cooperation and communication tools do not provide an integrated and homogeneous cooperation environment suitable for this application domain. This paper presents the Cooperative ...

BEIs: Threshold limit values for chemical substances and physical agents biological exposure indices. Cincinnati, OH: American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. *ACGIH. 1999b. Strontium chromate. 1999 TLVs and BEIs: Threshold limit values for chemical substances and physical agents biological exposure indices. Cincinnati, OH: American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygien...