Legal and System Analysis of e-Government

The aim of this dissertation is to analyse some legal, technical and economic aspects, related to the development of the e-Government in the Czech Republic and to draw the general prerequisites for the successful development of e-government services. The work contains a review of the legislation, which has a direct or indirect impact on the development of e-Government. It concerns mainly the digital signature legislation, public administration information systems, general regulations on administrative procedures and some special regulations. In this thesis are analyzed in detail the currently implemented e-government projects, especially public administration contact points, data inboxes, the authorized documents' conversion and basic registers of public administration. Special attention is devoted also to questions of personal data security in information systems. Possible effects of the e-Government are evaluated with regard to recipients of public administration, particularly citizens and legal persons. To measure the progress of individual e-government projects are being proposed measurable indicators (metrics), along with the procedure of their calculation. This thesis concludes that for reliable measurement of efficiency is needed to identify quantifiable indicators on the cost side and on the benefits side either. These indicators should be oriented to the cost aspect as well as to the specific objectives of public administration. As for the methodology, in the thesis are used the usual methods of research in the field of legal science. Furthermore, the process analysis, cost analysis, and metrics analysis, whose methodology is based primarily on economics, management or information management. To fulfil the objectives of the thesis and verification of hypotheses have been also used case studies.