Exploring the Relation Between the Digital Divide and Government's Effort to Develop E-Participation: A Global Longitudinal Analysis

Exploring the Relation Between the Digital Divide and Government's Effort to Develop E-Participation: A Global Longitudinal Analysis

Rosario Perez-Morote, Carolina Pontones Rosa, Esteban Alfaro Cortes
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/IJEGR.2020070102
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Abstract

According to the digital divide theory, the provision of opportunities to broaden participation in political processes pose a challenge for governments worldwide. In this research, the authors analyze the relationship between the evolution governments' effort to develop citizen e-participation in public policy—measured through the UN's e-participation index—and that of national contexts variables identified by the digital divide theory at country level, using panel data for 178 countries over the period 2008-2016. The results confirm the strong and positive connection between EPI and economic development and technological infrastructure of the countries, ageing population associated to higher life standards, as well as a negative impact of rurality, gender, and political freedom and democracy result not influential, as well as education. Some practical implications derive from the findings, contributing to explain performance differences across different national settings and identifying current inequalities that still require public action to bridge the divide.
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A broad line of research have described and measured the attributes of government websites trying to assess their maturity in terms of EG development (Kim, 2007; Gandía and Archidona, 2008; Tolbert, Mossberger and McNeal, 2008; Gallego, Rodríguez and García, 2010; Jorge, Moura, Pattaro and Lourenco, 2011; Siau and Long, 2015; Das, Singh and Joseph, 2017). Generally, these studies have also investigated the factors affecting that development, considering politic, socio-economic and demographic variables, mainly.

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