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This article exploits the discipline of Public Diplomacy taking into account the contribution of Web applications to practice it. A web application for public websites assessment is implemented. This application is a tool designed to help the government and public institutions to find their omissions and their by any chance errors in their websites, so that they can adjust and enrich them, aiming at providing excellent service to the citizens.
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Koffa, A., Kastania, A.N. (2010). Web Applications and Public Diplomacy. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15393-8_7
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