Forty percent of adults who use the Internet are surfing for data about the business of government, a proportion that shocked researchers, according to a survey published on Tuesday.”People want to know what’s going on in government,” said the report’s author Aaron Smith, a researcher at the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. “I think the number of people doing that was extremely surprising to us.”
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100427_4918.phpAlso see:Poll: Americans connecting with government online [AP]
More and more Americans are interacting with local, state and federal government offices online. They are turning to the Web to renew driver’s licenses and car registrations, to apply for hunting and fishing permits, to pay parking tickets and other fines and even to track campaign contributions and stimulus spending, according to a study being released Tuesday.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/poll-americans-connecting-with-government-online-20100427-tp2a.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/poll-americans-connecting-with-government-online-20100427-tp2a.htmlTo download the Pew study, see:
http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=11122
Many Americans surfing for hard facts about government
Forty percent of adults who use the Internet are surfing for data about the business of government, a proportion that shocked researchers, according to a survey published on Tuesday.