Author(s): Suhaib Ahmad Eid Al-Manaseer
Public administrations are keen to keep pace with technological development by exploiting modern means of communication and employing them in their various business practices, especially in the field of concluding administrative contracts in an effort to consolidate the principle of legality. This is achieved by adapting these means to serve the principles governing the conclusion of their contracts, in particular, the principle of transparency, as these means are considered the product of progress, the technological revolution and the change of concepts and communication tools that administrations can resort to when they desire to communicate with the contracting public in order to meet their needs and maintain their sustainability. This study aimed to highlight the role of modern means of communication in achieving the greatest degree of transparency when public administrations conduct contracts. It was divided into two chapters, the first chapter entitled: the legal significance of the principle of transparency, in which the concept of transparency and its extent with regard to electronic administrative contracts was explored in two topics, the second chapter entitled the impact of using modern means of communication on the principle of transparency, in which the development of the concept of transparency in the field of electronic administrative contracts was investigated in addition to the clarification of the status of that principle in some countries such as France, Jordan and Egypt in two successive topics. It was concluded in this study that modern means of communication have a major and effective role in highlighting the value and status of the principle of transparency in the field of electronic administrative contracts.