Modernización administrativa y difusión de innovaciones tecnológicas en la administración local

Abstract

Local administrations have used the latest technologies from decades ago. This article presents a research about the web sites of the region of Madrid's city councils, addressing the last movements through administrative modernization and the differencies between those web sites. Results of this exploratory study confirm that even if web sites offer possibilities to the city councils to develop potentialities related to the administrative modernization, local administrations have developed in a very variable way these possible benefits. Besides, using an index of web site development it is intented to get inside the relationship between this variable and some features related to the city councils and their institutional context. In sum, this article tackles with some of the critical aspects to understand the adoption and diffusion of technological innovations within the local public sector in a context of administrative modernization.