TY - BOOK ID - 8061122 TI - Turkey. PY - 2007 SN - 1281746746 9786611746742 9264028455 9264028447 PB - Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, DB - UniCat KW - Internet in public administration -- Turkey. KW - Internet in public administration. KW - Public administration -- Information resources management -- Turkey. KW - Public administration. KW - Internet in public administration KW - Public administration KW - Government - General KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Political Institutions & Public Administration - General KW - Information resources management KW - Administration, Public KW - Delivery of government services KW - Government services, Delivery of KW - Public management KW - Public sector management KW - Digital government KW - E-government KW - Electronic government KW - Online government KW - Political science KW - Administrative law KW - Decentralization in government KW - Local government KW - Public officers KW - Turkey UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8061122 AB - Turkey’s e-government efforts received new emphasis in the last three years. The election of a new government brought forward an agenda including public sector modernisation using e-government. Turkey has since made considerable progress with e-government. This review identifies several strategic opportunities. One opportunity is to stimulate the provision of e-services and e-commerce by increasing access to high-speed Internet throughout the country. A second opportunity is to skip the initial stages of e-government applications -- characterised by isolated islands of development -- and instead promote a more “joined up” government. A third opportunity is to use the existing base of 46 million mobile telephones as a communication channel between the government and its citizens. The review also identifies several major challenges. One challenge is bridging the digital divide between urban and rural populations, men and women, and young and old. A second challenge is public sector modernisation in terms of increased transparency and accountability. A third challenge is making sure that investments in e-government are valuable, i.e. that benefits are larger than costs. ER -