Electronic municipality as an alternative, complement, or development of traditional municipality

This study is seeking for review and evaluation of electronic municipality as an alternative, complement or development of traditional municipality. Municipality is an organization which is responsible for arrangement and checking of city affairs. These affairs include all affairs related to the construction, transportation and traffic, cleanness, green space etc. In fact, municipality is a set of mechanism Involving city and citizenship whose purposes are supplying and meeting of civilians' material and spiritual needs. Electronic government establishment is a prospect formed by all efforts based on IT development. To do this is not possible by traditional and bureaucratic ways which were prevalent before. So it is needed for the government to enter into the digital world step by step with other parts of the society and provide all necessary information and services in the form of on-line accessibility for everyone so that all parts of society can easily communicate with governmental sectors in advance with higher quality and lower cost and receive necessary services and exchange the information. Results show that Perfect application of a new technology needs social adoption and removing previous deficiencies and generally more perfect services. To do this in our country, it seems that deletion of municipalities in its traditional form and replacing it by electronic municipality can cause challenges even if these challenges are in the first years. In addition, this matter has some practical prohibitions too, since some operations cannot be offered electronically. Lack of necessary infrastructures may be one reason of that. Also, to be complement may be a sort of duties classifications and services between traditional municipality and electronic municipality regardless of having considerable and different progresses and offering service coordinated with current period. Considering these circumstances, we can say that electronic municipality must complete and develop traditional municipality.

Electronic government, Electronic municipality, Information Technology