Government-to-citizens relationship: Evaluating the quality of information on saudi ministries' websites

Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government, ECEG

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Abanumy, Abdulmohsen ^a   Mayhew, Pam ^b  

^a King Fahed Security College   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing countries; e Government; Evaluation; Saudi Arabia; Web based information quality; Website quality

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; EVALUATION; SAUDI ARABIA; WEB-BASED INFORMATION; WEBSITE QUALITY;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 77649282808     PISSN: 20491034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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