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Culture and Context:

E-gov is huge, if only in number of pages

By Susan Miller
Published on January 13, 2006 - 03:51 AM

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According to a recent paper in the January issue of the Electronic Government journal, “Building Semantic Webs for e-government with Wiki technology,� the U.S. government has the lion’s share of global government Web pages.



Here's the page count of selected e-government sites available through Google (June 2005)



CountryDomain# of web pages
USA .gov 368,000,000
Canada .gc.ca 12,100,000
UK .gov.uk 9,280,000
Australia .gov.au 7,200,000
China .gov.cn 2,630,000
New Zealand .gov.nz 1,290,000
South Africa .gov.za 816,000
Hong Kong .gov.hk 887,000
Thailand .gov.th 728,000
Slovenia .gov.si 388,000

The paper advocates trying to organize government Web pages with a two-layer semantic Wiki Web:


We therefore propose the design of a two-layer semantic Wiki web, which consists of a content Wiki, largely identical to the traditional web and a semantic layer, also maintained within the Wiki, that describes semantic relationships. This architectural design promises several advantages that enable incremental growth, collaborative development by a large community of non-technical users and the ability to continually grow the content layer without the immediate overhead of parallel maintenance of the semantic layer.


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