The Role of E-Government To Reduce Crimes Against The Public
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- Category: Dept of Psychology
- Published: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:00
- Written by Humaid Bin Nasser Bin Hamed Al Hajri
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The Role of E-Government To Reduce Crimes Against The Public Capital Afield Study On
Public Sector Employees In The Sultanate of Oman.
Humaid Bin Nasser Bin Hamed Al Hajri
Mu’tah university, 2011
This study aimed at identifying the level of the application of e government and its role to reduce crimes against the public capital in the Sultanate of Oman. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 478 government employees.
The study findings found that the rate of knowledge in e-government in governmental departments and institutions in the Sultanate of Oman was (91%), where it was around(100%) half of them are government departments in Oman, and below (55%) when working in the Ministry of Legal Affairs . 56.2% of the sample Believed that their computers mechanism is controlled by the government. The perceptions of respondents towards the role of e-government to reduce the crimes of public capital (e.g. theft, embezzlement, and breach of trust, and bribery), and about the level of application of e-government and the staff’s degree of efficiency to use the information technology in the maintenance of public capital was high.
The perceptions of staff about the difficulties facing the application of e-government in the control of public capital were medium.
The findings found out that the level of perceptions of respondents towards the role of e-government to reduce crimes against the public capital , and the level of staff competence in the recruitment of information