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The chapter covers explanations of innovations for public administration and analysis of virtual communities and eMunicipalities as innovations. The objectives and results received from survey of municipalities' Web sites are presented to enable concluding.
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Pankowska, M. (2009). Virtual Communities and eMunicipalities as Innovations. In: Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, G., Lang, M., Conboy, K., Barry, C. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68772-8_28
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