Municipalities on the Web: User-friendliness of government information on the Internet

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4084 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 174-185

  De Jong, Menno ^a   Lentz, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; WEBSITES;

CHECKLIST-BASED RANKINGS; E-GOVERNMENT; MUNICIPAL WEBSITES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 33750014790     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11823100_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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