Authors : Ahmed Abbas Jasim Al-Hchaimi, Ahmed Ghanim Wadday and Ahmed Jamal Ibrahim
Abstract: The information technology, communications and internet websites have been become one of the most important requirements of the modern countries that are still developing the infrastructure and providing best performance locally and internationally. The Iraqi Government represented by both e-Gate and e-Citizen portal (egov.gov.iq, ca.iq) emphasizes the optimal employing of information technology and internet services by the ease of access and utilizing of e-Government websites. Also, diagnosing all things is a hindrance without it. The main target of this research is to estimate both of the accessibility and also, security of e-Government websites by utilizing many automated diagnostic tools like Pingdom and Google’s speed insight checker and Aconites, this research evaluates usability, web accessibility and web vulnerabilities in nearly) 50 (websites from selected government sites in Iraq. The findings reveal several issues related to access to and security of Iraqi Government websites. The usability problems have been found with large numbers discovered 100% of websites that have been cut off links and 35 out of 50 websites have loaded time of more than 5 sec for the main interface. Access outcomes indicate that all 50 selected sites take access errors and violate the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WACC) 1.0. The results indicate that the internet security vulnerabilities 50.6% sites have one or more severe vulnerability (injection of SQL or cross-site scripting-XSS) while 57.4% have one or more of the weaknesses the request for fraud through the site or denied service. Relied on the findings there are several recommendations supplied for security and accessibility of Iraqi general establishments.
Ahmed Abbas Jasim Al-Hchaimi, Ahmed Ghanim Wadday and Ahmed Jamal Ibrahim, 2019. An Assessment Framework for the Websites Effectiveness in Iraqi e-Government. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 7980-7987.