YILMAZ Sonmez

The purpose of this paper is to research the effects of Information and especially Internet Technologies over municipal governance and services. For this reason, the paper first talks about the establishment of City Information Management System (CIMS) and Municipal Information anagement System (MIMS). Then, the paper talks about the steps of establishing e-Municipal web site for transferring the municipal services to internet that is based on MIMS. Paper also talks about why the technological and global changes are forcing local governments to change their management structure. Paper concludes that e-Municipal services become an infrastructure service for cities in Information Age.

Municipality, municipal governance, governance, approach to the system , efficiency, adequacy, Globalization, global competition, internet, democracy, information technology, web site, City Information Management System (CIMS), Municipal Information Management System (MIMS), e-municipality