Governments are pursuing initiatives to deliver their services on-line in order to provide better service to citizens as well as to reduce their own business costs. Designing good applications is not just a matter of developing good technical solutions. The context in which the application will be used is also important. One application with the potential to benefit both government and citizens...

E-government evaluation is ubiquitously perceived as a government website evaluation. Related literature shows that such studies are usually carried out with in an intention to benchmark the government bodies and to rate one agency over the other; however this paper presents a result-oriented approach to evaluate the government websites from citizens’ perspective. The whole task of e-government...

E-government has a significant impact on the performance of public sector as a result continuous growth has been seen in the e-governments development around the world since last two decades. This paper investigates the e-government development scenario in Saudi Arabia and to compare it with the USA. The study is based on the e-government survey reports conducted by the United Nations between 2...

The decline of regional Australia in terms of wealth and population during the two decades since 1980 has compelled the Federal Government to intervene. In 1997 the Australian Federal Government devoted in excess of $A460 million to a grant award scheme called the Regional Telecommunication Infrastructure Fund (RTIF) in which regional communities identified local telecommunication problems and ...

The decline of regional Australia in terms of wealth and population during the two decades since 1980 has compelled the Federal Government to intervene. In 1997 the Australian Federal Government devoted in excess of $A460 million to a grant award scheme called the Regional Telecommunication Infrastructure Fund (RTIF) in which regional communities identified local telecommunication problems and ...

Professionals can be rewarded in different ways. The most common type of reward is provided by the market, that is, by successfully selling one’s products or services to consumers. In professional fields dealing with the production of knowledge, art, et cetera, market success is usually just one type of reward for professionals and not necessarily the most important one. Especially recognition ...

Indonesia ranked 96 out of 191 United Nations’ members state in e-government readiness index. Since Indonesia has a great deal of heterogeneity in term of economic development, infrastructure, and human resources quality, we tried to study the state of e-government adoption by looking at local governments. Stanton’s framework wais used to evaluate local government websites. We found that the pr...

The Pacific was well represented at the Summit by over 100 delegates, including nine heads of government. The preceding 18 months of preparation involved a considerable commitment and investment by the region and its partners in sustainable development (Miles 1992). Now, 18 months down the track, it is necessary to ask how this level of international attention and political commitment is affect...

Malaysia, as a small and developing country, must reduce carbon emissions because the country is one of the top CO2-emitting countries in the ASEAN region. Therefore, the current study implements two environmental tax policies; carbon and energy taxes, in order to examine the impacts of these policies on the reduction of carbon emission in the whole of the economy by applying a compu...