Paper Info
Title
Using Online Public Services: A Measurement of Citizens' Operational, Formal, Information and Strategic Skills
Abstract
It is important to take digital inequality research in consideration when focusing on electronic public service delivery. From this point of view, this paper considers four digital skills that citizens need when using online public services. Measurements of these skills in the Netherlands indicate that on average 80% of the operational skill Internet assignments, 72% of formal Internet skills assignments, 62% of the information Internet skills assignments and 25% of strategic Internet skills assignments have been successfully completed. Performances are significantly different for people with high, medium and low level of education attained and in some cases for people with different age. The Dutch government's expectation that every citizen with an Internet connection is able to complete the assignments clearly is not justified.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85204-9_17
EGOV
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital divide
Skills management,Public service,Digital divide,Computer science,Public relations,Knowledge management,Inequality,Digital skills,Internet access,Government,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5184
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander van Deursen132923.35
Jan van Dijk2181.55