This paper describes research in progress to explore the role of culture in adoption of e-government at local government levels. The majority of research in electronic government highlighted cultural issues but they do not identify specific cultural traits influencing e-government adoption and use. From our literature review we identified four major cultural traits; adaptability, involvement, m...

UK government policy has been to exhort local authorities to expand and develop the role of e-government in their provision of services. One mechanism by which this is achieved is through the development of Implementing Electronic Government (IEG) statements annually to ODPM detailing past progress and future plans. This paper examines some IEG statements in one of the counties of the UK (Hamps...

This puper discusses mujor orgunizutionul chullenges fuced by initiutives to implement e-government. Firstly. guiding principles und problems qf restructuring udminiswutive .functions und processes ure pointed out. Secondly, requirements qf und burriers to coordinution und cooperation within public udministrution ure cfiscussed with U view on specific nutionul strutegies. As U third chullenge t...

The goal of this Birds of a Feather session is to discuss current and proposed strategies for creating new, interdisciplinary digital government curricula. Bring your success and horror stories, as well as your hopes and fears.

There is a great potential for creating public value by engaging and getting citizens to collaborate together with governments in public activities. E-government and open government enable citizens and governments to collaborate and (co)-create value that benefit both parties, but there are factors inhibiting value to be co-created and realized in the public sector. Research on value co-creatio...

Structuration theory and the theory of network society are used to guide an investigation of the extent to which ICT investments in emerging countries impact future levels of democracy, corruption, and egovernment acceptance. Using structural path modeling and data from fifty emerging economies, this paper finds that an emerging country’s acceptance of the e-government paradigm is contingent up...

The aim of this investigation was to examine the level of e-government adoption at regional level in Europe in terms of eight different categories addressing services provided, internal capacity in terms of training and policies, and perceived barriers to e-government. A survey of 1021 municipalities across seven European regions was conducted in order to ascertain the development of e-governme...

E-government requires more attention from researchers to investigate the factors that predict the success of such initiative. This study used secondary data from international reports to investigate the relationship between transparency and e-government development. Two measures used for transparency: the corruption perception index (CPI) and the open budget index (OBI) and were regressed to se...