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Th ese essential characteristics correspond directly with the respondents’ perceived<br />
benefi ts of time savings, improved fl exibility and convenience, being better informed,<br />
and being able to access simplifi ed processes of service delivery. Personalisation and<br />
pro-activity were high on people’s list of requirements whereas multi-channel access<br />
seemed less essential. Sharing information through user groups and communities<br />
was mentioned as a top three feature by only 16% of the respondents.<br />
As far as future conditions for the development of Gov 2.0 are concerned, more<br />
than half of the people in the sample target groups were convinced that public<br />
agencies should collaborate with private actors to enable better information<br />
and service delivery. Th ere was a strong belief that – in order to develop new<br />
user-oriented service applications – public<br />
agencies will have to open up and exchange<br />
their data with other public and private actors.<br />
At the same time, according to at least one out<br />
of three respondents, third party involvement<br />
in the development and provision of public<br />
service delivery applications implies increased<br />
privacy risks.<br />
Half of the survey’s user sample stated that government agencies should make<br />
use of social media platforms more actively, while only a quarter was convinced<br />
that information posted by fellow Internet users is more useful than offi cial<br />
government web applications.<br />
According to the platform analysis provided by this user survey, new Web 2.0<br />
based models of public service delivery that are developed by government<br />
agencies in co-production with third parties certainly have the potential to<br />
better meet user needs and, accordingly, to be adopted by a signifi cantly high<br />
proportion of today’s online citizens.<br />
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