Title: Agricultural e-government in China, Korea, Taiwan and the USA

Authors: Tzong-Ru Lee, Hsiao-Chen Wu, Cheng-Jen Lin, Hsiao-Ting Wang

Addresses: Department of Marketing, Institute of Electronic Commerce, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung City 402, Taiwan. ' Department of Marketing, Institute of Electronic Commerce, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung City 402, Taiwan. ' Department of Marketing, Institute of Electronic Commerce, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung City 402, Taiwan. ' Institute of Electronic Commerce, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung City 402, Taiwan

Abstract: E-government provides information and services by websites. Using the functions of e-government described by West (2000), we discuss government agricultural websites in China, Korea, Taiwan and the USA, and suggest improvement. The findings indicate that general functions, viz. online information, services, foreign language access, restricted area and information sharing, are established. Greater effort should be made for advanced functions, viz. disability access, privacy and security and advertisement and user pay system. The result of this research serves as reference for other countries in developing their agricultural e-government.

Keywords: electronic government; e-government; agricultural websites; website functions; China; Korea; Taiwan; USA; United States; agriculture.

DOI: 10.1504/EG.2008.016128

Electronic Government, an International Journal, 2008 Vol.5 No.1, pp.63 - 70

Published online: 06 Dec 2007 *

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