ICTs for Government Transparency

In the Case Studies section

Case Studies - Categorised

You can select e-transparency cases via one of the following seven forms of classification:

Centrality of Transparency

Central

Mixed

Secondary

What do these categories mean? 

Type of Transparency

Publication

Transaction

Reporting

Accountability

What do these categories mean?

Audience for Transparency

External

Mixed

Internal

What do these categories mean? 

Content of Transparency

Financial

Contractual

Workflow

Registration

Sector-Specific

Mixed

What do these categories mean?

Sector

General Services: Public Administration; Prime Minister's/President's Office; Electoral Commission; Data and Statistics; Tax; Procurement; IT Department/Agency; Foreign Affairs; Planning Commission; Land Registration

Economic Services: Agriculture; Commerce and Industry; Finance; Mining; Forestry; Livestock and Fisheries; Transport; Communications; Energy; Water Resources; Construction and Public Works; Environment; Science and Technology

Security Services: Policing and Internal Security; Defence

Multiple Services: Often Local or State Government-Wide

What do these categories mean?  They are a standard method for dividing up the work of the public sector.

Outcome

Partial Success/Partial Failure

Largely Unsuccessful

Too Early To Evaluate

No Independent Evaluation

What do these categories mean? 

Region

Africa: Central Africa; Southern Africa

South Asia

Asia: South-East Asia

Latin America: South America

European Periphery

What do these categories mean?  Get an atlas!

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Page Author: Richard Heeks. Last updated on 19 October, 2008.
Please contact richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk with comments and suggestions.