Msc Information Technology (business)

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Saudi e-government programme, namely Yesser, and determine the level of Saudi society readiness in adopting e-government. Two questionnaires were used in this study to measure users' satisfaction rates of Yesser and the readiness level of Saudi society. The annual progress report of Yesser and its action plan documents were also used to evaluate Yesser. In addition, this researcher compared Yesser with two neighborhood e-government programmes, specifically eDubai and eOman. The findings of this study suggest a serious issue that faces implementing Yesser. These findings also suggest that it is very unlikely to achieve Yesser objective without making significant changes to the action plan. The result of the comparison among the stated e-government programmes indicates that Yesser progress is average compared to the other selected government programmes. The Saudi society readiness of adopting e-government seems to be considerably low to the extent that may not allow Yesser to accomplish its objectives.