Title :
Clustering the Countries According to Relation Between E-Government and Transparency
Author :
Shahkooh, Kolsoom Abbasi ; Fasanghari, Mehdi ; Abdollahi, Ali
Author_Institution :
ITRC, Tehran
Abstract :
This paper introduces e-government as a solution to reduce corruption in government activities. A description of corruption and its causes in many countries is presented. Correlation between e-government ranking and transparency ranking of 180 countries and also Islamic countries are measured. After that by using k-means clustering, all countries are allocated to clusters.
Keywords :
government data processing; pattern clustering; corruption reduction; e-government; government activities; k-means clustering; transparency; Control systems; Electronic government; Humans; Immune system; Law; Legal factors; Monitoring; Power generation economics; Security; Unemployment; E-government; ICT; Transparency; clustering; corruption;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Damascus
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1751-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1752-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4529952
