This paper contributes to the issue of mGovernment implementations by exploring the government’s policy on ICT and e-Government in Saudi Arabia, and sheds light on the role of mGovernment applications for enhancing information and service delivery to citizens. This also describes the results of a survey on the available mGovernment applications, and provides an overall evaluation of them in Sau...

Electronic Government (e-government) is a rapidly growing field that gets increasing attention from practitioners and researchers around the world. This attention comes from various disciplines, including public administration, information systems, computer science, political science and organisation research. Over the last decade the field has been maturing, with its own research programs, ded...

The Italian National Centre for Information Technology in Public Administration (CNIPA) introduced the concept of Local Alliances for Innovation (ALI) as the tool for the inclusion of small municipalities in the spread of E-Government in Italy. Based on the CNIPA’s definition, the paper discusses the concept of ALI as an organizational model that can be resorted to in order to reduce the admini...

Information is the foundation of all governing. Information guides decisions and processes large and small—from matters of war and peace to garbage collection. The last decade has witnessed unprecedented attention to the machinery of information in government—often categorized as ‘‘electronic government.’’ Information and communication technologies have been touted as the cure for everything fr...

Under the APA (5 U.S.C. 551–553) our normal practice is to publish policies with a 30-day delay in effective date. In this case, however, we use the ‘‘good cause’’ exemption under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3) to make this rule effective upon publication. This rule relieves a restriction, and it is not in the public interest to delay its effective date. We believe that another nontoxic shot option likely ...

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