i Welcome to the second issue of volume eight in the International Journal of Electronic Government Research. This issue presents readers with five papers that are focused on subjects surrounding the adoption of e-government services and associated implementation factors that can influence citizens use of e-government systems. Factors such as trust, risk, security and privacy are highlighted in...

The Electronic Government is a new field of applications for the semantic web where ontologies are becoming an important research technology. The e-Government faces considerable challenges to achieve interoperability given the semantic differences of interpretation, complexity and width of scope. In this paper we show the results obtained in an ongoing project commissioned by the Spanish govern...

To this point, there have been few studies of e-Government in Cambodia. This study can be considered as a first step in the examination of e-Government in Cambodia. The paper examines the various factors that contribute and challenge the implementation of e-Government. These factors are grouped into three main categories: 1) management, 2) infrastructure, and 3) human factors. In the context of...

The Maltese government has instigated its vision of an ‘e’ infrastructure to support the islands’ Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in their efforts to meet the challenges of the new unbounded digital economy. This paper takes an early look at the perception of ‘e’ potentials amongst Maltese entrepreneurs. Although the findings depicted a generally positive attitude towards the concept ...

E-government facilitates provision of relevant government information in electronic form to the citizens in a timely manner and better service delivery to citizens. Information Technology today is recognized as an effective tool for turning the economic activity in efficient governance and in developing human resource. E-government is a kind of governmental administration which is based on ICT ...

The long-term success of e-government initiatives is of paramount importance, especially for developing countries, which face challenges such as limited budget, donor dependence, transfer of technology, short-term involvement of non-local agents, and relatively unstable political and economic environment. Although e-government success and sustainability are both relevant concepts to assess IT-e...

e-Government systems present new challenges for user involvement in the design process. Existing user-centred and participatory design methodologies were mainly developed for situations where a user is in the workplace. In e-government applications the user population is heterogeneous and numerous; the increasing ubiquity of e-government systems also questions the concept of “the interface”. Th...

Public administrators face considerable challenges in their quest of reforming government. E-government initiatives are tiny steps taken in the above-mentioned direction. Various e-government initiatives have been categorically documented in the IS and NPM literature. However, a majority of these projects are either still underway or have failed due to the lack of a proper governance framework....

Even though there has been a proliferation of e-society measures in recent years, analyses of the metrics of the “information society” are still far from responsive to the needs of many stakeholders and continue to suffer from a number of serious limitations. Issues in eight critical areas are briefly presented. They include: definition of the universe to be measured; definition of the objects ...

with respect to the vision statement, economy of iran has to transform to a knowledge-based economy in 1404, which is currently (according to the official statistics) an input-oriented one. improving productivity is among primary solutions to reach the goal. nevertheless, productivity of the government has not been in a good condition during past few years.due to this matter and challenges in p...