Abstract
During the past years, governments have made significant efforts to improve both their internal processes and the services that they provide to citizens and businesses. These led to several successful e-Government applications (e.g., see www.epractice.eu). One of the most popular tools that was used by governments in order to modernize their services and make them accessible is e-Government portals, e.g., (Drigas et al. 2005), (Fang 2002). The main goals of such portals are: To make available complete, easy to understand, and structured information about public services and public administration’s modus operandi, which will assist citizens during the service provision process. To facilitate the electronic execution of public services. Nevertheless, most of such efforts did not succeed. Gartner argues that most e-Government strategies have not achieved their objectives and have failed to trigger sustainable government transformation to greater efficiency and citizen-centricity (DiMaio 2007).
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Loutas, N., Giantsiou, L., Peristeras, V., Tarabanis, K. (2010). A Semantically Enabled Portal for Facilitating the Public Service Provision. In: Vitvar, T., Peristeras, V., Tarabanis, K. (eds) Semantic Technologies for E-Government. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03507-4_12
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