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Electronic services enable governments to interact effectively with citizens, companies, their employees, and other governments 24 h a day. In the interests of maximum usability, these services should respond to the dynamic demands of governments and citizens. Governments can only achieve better public electronic services by analyzing economic, cultural, political, and technical progress in the world. As a result, they should carefully create new electronic services, regularly monitor, and regulate them, and work with public and private institutions throughout the digital process. This chapter follows the classification of a wide range of public electronic services and an examination of each category of electronic services by synthesizing the findings of 100 scientific articles. The analysis aims to provide more specific knowledge on the corresponding services of public e-government, e-government, e-learning, e-transport, e-health, and public procurement, and some criteria that may indicate how to better design public e-services.
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Hübl, B.F., Šepeľová, L. (2022). Design Criteria of Public E-Services. In: Kryvinska, N., Greguš, M. (eds) Developments in Information & Knowledge Management for Business Applications. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 421. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97008-6_5
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