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With the transition to information society and the
spread of new communication technologies, a new paradigm has emerged, which is
defined as e-governance in public administration. While e-governance focuses on
state-citizen interaction in designing, implementing and supervision of public
policies, it provides positive gains for citizens and municipalities which are
the most important representatives of public service provision at the local
level. In order to develop and use e-governance practices in a way that will
benefit the municipalities and citizens, the level of knowledge, awareness and
usage of citizens should be determined.
This study reflects a sectional part of the TUBITAK-117K012 project
research which was conducted to examine the services provided by Kocaeli
provincial and district municipalities in new media environments in terms of
both municipalities and citizens within the framework of e-governance. In this
research, 600 face-to-face surveys were conducted to determine the level of
knowledge, awareness and usage of citizens for the services provided by Kocaeli
provincial and district municipalities in the context of e-governance in new
media environments. Research findings show
that the level of citizens' knowledge, awareness and use of e-governance
services in Kocaeli province and district municipalities is low, and the results were discussed on this axis.