Research Design

managing it in government, business & communities
Chapter 9 - Electronic Government in Japan: IT Utilization Status of Local Governments
Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities
by Gerry Gingrich (ed) 
Idea Group Publishing 2003
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To conduct empirical research to answer the above questions, we conducted a survey of local governments, and interviewed officials at eight of the local governments that responded to the questionnaire. The methods of the questionnaire survey are as follows:

  • Period of survey: July 2000 (the questionnaire was issued on April 1, 2000)

  • Targets: 203 local governments in Japan (prefectural governments, cities with a population of 200,000 or more, and prefectural capitals, and wards and cities in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area)

  • Total number of respondents: 140 local governments (ratio of respondents: 69.0 percent)

The following survey results are given by type of local government. The results are stated below, and compared with the results of a similar survey in 1996 when needed (Shimada, 1999). By chance, two similar surveys about electronic government were conducted in America in the same year. One was prepared by Norris, Fletcher and Holden for ICMA and PTI (2001) [1], and another was prepared by Hart-Teeter for the Council for Excellence in Government (2000) [2]. We used parts of their survey results for a comparison of the results from our survey.

[1]http://www.umbc.edu/mpar/

[2]http://www.excelgov.org/

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Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities
Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities
ISBN: 1931777403
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 188

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