Abstract
Transparency is currently required as an essential element of public administration functioning. It supports quality, effectiveness and economy of administration both at the central and the local level of government. Transparency is currently also supported by modernization trends in public administration utilizing an implementation of information technologies and open access to information. The key role in the modernization efforts of public administration plays worldwide e-government. It is the effective tool to transform the public administration and public services towards greater transparency, information availability and participation in decision-making process. The submitted paper is focused on the analysis of transparency principle application on the local level of government in the Czech Republic. It is based on the evaluation of transparency in local decision-making, information availability and participation possibility. The availability of selected information was analyzed on selected local municipal websites in the Moravian-Silesian region in the year 2014. The target is the assessing of information disclosure on official municipal websites, especially offering and availability evaluation of selected information and the evaluation of the rate of information availability on monitored municipal websites.
Highlights
Transparency plays a significant role in the contemporary trend of public administration modernization
The article focused on the possibility of transparency evaluation by monitoring of information availability about decision-making and tools supporting the participation of citizens on the municipal websites
The article evaluates the praxis of transparency principle adoption in the Czech e-government
Summary
Transparency plays a significant role in the contemporary trend of public administration modernization It is one of the principles of Good Governance, which was first defined in 1999 by SIGMA organization (OECD, 1999). Good Governance principles originated from the experience made across different European countries with diverse systems of public administration They are considered as a basis of efficient public administration in democratic states. As stated in Vaníček (2011), e-government (for example on-line services or electronic processing of applications) is helping to eliminate corruption because of the avoiding of personal contact of the subjects. Another important trend of contemporary e-government is the development of e-participation. This is the development of innovative electronic tools that allow citizens to involve actively in decision-making processes of government
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