E-Government. Contents and organization of the autonomic parliaments web sites

Abstract

We understand the legislative parliaments web sites as an instrument for the democratic development and as a modernization of the administration for the citizens. From this perspective, the present work evaluates the development and the organization of the autonomic Spanish parliaments web sites, from the defined standard established by the Interparliamentarian Union, owing to the Congress celebrated in Amman in the year 2000. The mentioned standard established the common lines, in an international level, of contents and organization of the parliamentarian web sites. The current investigation shows the rules as a methodological instrument which measures the quality of the information, and the digital gap that can arise between the different web sites. In this way, the methodology in use has a questionnaire prepared from the standard of Amman, in which the characteristics to evaluate each site are presented, as parameters with a series of recommended and optional indicators. The evaluation questionnaire reviews in an organized form each element that the analyst needs to valuate, the existence and the development –if required–, or the absence of each indicator. The results and conclusions indicate the good index of contents and organization of the Spanish web sites regarding the Interparliamentarian Union standards. Although as phases of modernization of the administration, they need improvement to bring the information near to the citizen, and contribute to the electronic government. To conclude with the economical values, efficiency and efficacy that play a leading part in the administrative modernization that must be applied to these web sites to reduce the distance between who decides and the people that they represent.