Comparative Analysis of the e-Municipality Applications in Turkey: the Case of Western Black Sea Region

In this study, it was aimed to put forward the presence and types of online e-municipality services by analyzing the web sites of seven province and 21 district municipalities in the western black sea region. in order to determine the district municipalities, the address-based population registration system of 2010 was used and three most populated districts were chosen from each province. e-municipality services stated on the web sites of the municipalities were coded as 0=available or 1=not available on the assessment criteria form. according to the results, only three of the seven province municipalities in western black sea region provide e-municipality services. according to the grading, in terms of the availability of online transactions among the seven municipalities which provide e-municipality services, municipality of düzce takes the first place with 14 points and a 0.58 coefficient value and municipality of kastamonu is in the second place with 12 points and a 0.50 coefficient value.