• DocumentCode
    3334117
  • Title

    Information Reuse among Government Websites in Asian Countries

  • Author

    Lui, Siu Man ; Yu, Calvin Chun

  • Author_Institution
    James Cook Univ., Cairns
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    13-15 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    158
  • Lastpage
    163
  • Abstract
    This paper studied the government Websites of 47 member nations of the United Nations in Asia. To investigate the extent of information availability and information reuse among these websites, data on number of pages, number of pages receiving incoming hyperlinks and number of pages containing outgoing hyperlinks of the government websites of each nation were gathered from major commercial search engines. The correlations of information availability and reuse with economics indicators, information technology advancement indicators, and democracy level indicators of these nations were examined. We further analyzed the information reuse within the government Websites by examining the hyperlinks interlinking among the Websites of all selected nations. We considered these government Websites as a hyperlinked network and used network analysis and visualization techniques to analyze and visualize the network structure. The results identified the role and significance of each nation in this government information network.
  • Keywords
    Internet; data visualisation; economics; government data processing; information use; search engines; Asian countries; commercial search engines; democracy level indicators; economics indicators; government Web sites; government information network; hyperlinks interlinking; information availability; information reuse; information technology advancement indicators; network analysis; visualization techniques; Asia; Business; Cultural differences; Government; Information analysis; Information technology; Physics; Search engines; Visualization; Web sites;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Reuse and Integration, 2007. IRI 2007. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, IL
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1500-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-1500-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRI.2007.4296614
  • Filename
    4296614