What do citizens want from government online and mobile apps?
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Security and privacy are the top issues for Americans when it comes to the online services and mobile apps provided by their government, according to a new survey.
More than a third of respondents, 36 percent, picked security as their main concern from a list of issues, and 80 percent put it in the top three. Privacy was rated top by 22 percent, and 61 percent listed it as one of the top three — but there was a gender gap. Many more women (70 percent), than men (53 percent), put privacy in their top three concerns.
Although privacy was a concern across generations, only 10 percent of federal employees cited it as their top priority, compared to 25 percent generally.
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The other concerns on the list were convenience and ease of use, cost, cutting-edge technology, public input, personalization, and time-to-market.
Only 11 percent rated cost their top concern, and fewer than half, 42 percent, put it among their top three.
Personalization scored only with millennials. Nearly one-in-five —18 percent — of millennials rated it a top-three concern, compared with just 7 percent of other generations.
The poll, of 500 D.C. metropolitan area residents, was undertaken by McGuire Research Services Inc. in mid-June. It has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4.4 percentage points. It was sponsored by Accenture.
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