ICTs for Government Transparency

Techniques

Avoiding eTransparency Failure: Factor-Specific Techniques

How can I make my e-transparency project more likely to succeed and/or less likely to fail?

This page offers one approach to answering this question. A different approach can be found under Design-Reality Gap techniques.

Analysis has shown that there is a general set of success and failure factors that affect e-transparency projects. Follow this link for further explanation about these factors (and some related case examples).

By following the links below, you will find some ideas about how to address those factors in order to increase the chance of success and/or reduce the chance of failure in your e-transparency project. The ideas were derived from a set of commissioned e-transparency cases plus related online discussions.

 

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