Characterization of e-Government adoption in Europe
dc.contributor.author | Yera Gil, Ainhoa | |
dc.contributor.author | Arbelaiz Gallego, Olatz | |
dc.contributor.author | Jauregui, Oier | |
dc.contributor.author | Muguerza Rivero, Javier Francisco | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-27T10:33:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-27T10:33:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-04-17 | |
dc.identifier.citation | PLoS ONE 15(4): (2020) // Article ID e0231585 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/42913 | |
dc.description.abstract | The digital divide in Europe has not yet been bridged and thus more contributions towards understanding the factors affecting the different dimensions involved are required. This research offers some insights into the topic by analyzing the e-Government adoption or practical use of e-Government across Europe (26 EU countries). Based on the data provided by the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat), we defined two indexes, the E-Government Use Index (EGUI) and an extreme version of it taking into account only null or complete use (EGUI+), and characterized the use/non use of e-Government tools using supervised learning procedures in a selection of countries with different e-Government adoption levels. These procedures achieved an average accuracy of 73% and determined the main factors related to the practical use of e-Government in each of the countries, e.g. the frequency of buying goods over the Internet or the education level. In addition, we compared the proposed indexes to other indexes measuring the level of e-readiness of a country such as the E-Government Development Index (EGDI) its Online Service Index (OSI) component, the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) and its Government usage component (GU). The ranking comparison found that EGUI+ is correlated with the four indexes mentioned at 0.05 significance level, as the majority of countries were ranked in similar positions. The outcomes contribute to gaining understanding about the factors influencing the use of e-Government in Europe and the different adoption levels. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Plos One | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.title | Characterization of e-Government adoption in Europe | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | 2020 Yera et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231585 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0231585 | |
dc.departamentoes | Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Konputagailuen Arkitektura eta Teknologia | es_ES |
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