Revealing the Popularity of Indonesian Local Government Mobile Apps in Google Play Store

I Sentana, I Atmaja, I Astawa

2021

Abstract

In this research, we revealed the popularity of mobile apps affiliated with the provincial governments in Indonesia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to conduct an empirical analysis related to this area. In total, we found 283 mobile apps available on the Google Play Store and correlated to 32 province governments in Indonesia. In this research, we scraped metadata of each provincial government-affiliated apps available at the Google Play Store and gathered the information based on three indicators, including the number of installs, number of reviews and score ratings. As a result, we found that 69.9% of mobile apps had a number of installs smaller than 1000, 89% of mobile apps had reviews less than 100 and 50.2% of mobile apps had scored less than 3. In addition, based on the popularity index that we defined, we found high disparities in the popularity index among provinces in Indonesia. There is only 1 province that has a Popularity index above 90, indicating that the popularity of mobile apps affiliated to the provincial government in Indonesia is considered to be low. Hence, these results can be tailored as a reference for the provincial government in determining the level of effectiveness and impact of an app when developing mobile-based software in the future.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sentana I., Atmaja I. and Astawa I. (2021). Revealing the Popularity of Indonesian Local Government Mobile Apps in Google Play Store. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES, ISBN 978-989-758-615-6, pages 844-850. DOI: 10.5220/0010955200003260

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icast-es21,
author={I Sentana and I Atmaja and I Astawa},
title={Revealing the Popularity of Indonesian Local Government Mobile Apps in Google Play Store},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES,},
year={2021},
pages={844-850},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010955200003260},
isbn={978-989-758-615-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES,
TI - Revealing the Popularity of Indonesian Local Government Mobile Apps in Google Play Store
SN - 978-989-758-615-6
AU - Sentana I.
AU - Atmaja I.
AU - Astawa I.
PY - 2021
SP - 844
EP - 850
DO - 10.5220/0010955200003260