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multiple organizational, institutional and contextual variables<br />

with the general score and each individual component of the<br />

ranking could be very useful. In depth case studies, using a<br />

qualitative approach could also help to understand some details<br />

in the countries that improved or obtained a lower score in 2012.<br />

E-government metrics and evaluation is an important field of<br />

research to understand the status and evolution of e-government<br />

around the world. It could also help countries to foster egovernment<br />

implementation with practical recommendations.<br />

There could be many evaluation models and we are not arguing<br />

that this is the best one. However, we think that evaluating<br />

government portals in Central America could be considered an<br />

important and necessary first step towards more sophisticated<br />

studies on e-government implementation in the region. This<br />

paper represents one of the first attempts to understand this<br />

phenomenon in Central America and hopefully will start a<br />

dialog about how information technologies could improve the<br />

information, communication and sevices between governments,<br />

citizens, businesses and other stakeholders.<br />

6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />

This work is partially supported by “Diálogo Regional sobre la<br />

Sociedad de la Información (DIRSI)”, Lima, Perú.<br />

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