This paper focuses on the global and country level implications of government 2.0 initiatives. Government 2.0 focuses on the interactive components of e-government. Government 2.0 interaction ranges from message board entries to more sophisticated options such as polls and electronic voting. The implications of the government 2.0 phenomenon can be far-reaching particularly for emerging and deve...

Placing complaints to any offline government bodies is a very tedious task. This is basically because locating the government office can be problematic. Direct complaint registration may be time consuming process. According to a survey, usage of Android based devices has increased drastically than other Mobile OS. Due to increased Android users, using mobile application to register complaint is...

Governments in developing countries are increasingly making efforts to provide more access to information and services for citizens, businesses, and civil servants through smart devices. However, providing strategically high impact m-services is facing numerous challenges, such as complexity of different mobile technologies, creating secured networks to deliver reliable service, and identifying...

In a common market with costless mobility of all factors, regional governments can attract mobile rms by granting subsidies which must be nanced out of wage taxes on mobile labour. Since rms locate where subsidies are highest and workers settle where taxes are lowest, government are forced "in the splits" (double Bertrand-type tax competition). We assume that without government intervention the...

The subscribers’ base of mobile phones is increasing globally with a rapid rate. The sale of mobile phones has exceeded those of personal computers. India is the second largest telecommunication network in the world in terms of number of wireless connections after China. Telecom companies are ready to tap a large unexplored market in India with lucrative offerings. Smart phones sale are at its ...

PERIKLIS is a Greek National project for the development of an innovative e-Government platform for public services, using mobile and social network technologies. PERIKLIS consists of a content management system for publishing, editing and modifying content in both desktop and mobile and a middleware framework containing core functionalities and intelligence. The main services of the platform i...

PERIKLIS Electronic Democracy in the 21st Century is a Greek National project [1][2], funded from EU and Hellenic Government from ESPA funding scheme [3], whose goal is to improve quality of life in the urban environment by increasing opportunities for interaction between citizens and between citizens and public services, through the use of mobile and social network technologies. In this way, t...

E-government concept, defined as the use of information technologies (Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing) that have the ability to transform relations between citizens, businesses, and other branch of the government, has been adopted by many government agencies. In general, there are two most important applications; interactive web maps that can be queried on Internet and sp...