Several governments across the world enhance their attempt to provide efficient, advanced, and modern services to their users (citizens and businesses) based on information and computer technologies (ICT) and especially the Web. The remarkable acceptance of this powerful tool has changed the way of conducting various transactions and offers citizens, businesses, and public authorities’ limitles...

Purpose – While private companies have continued to take advantage of information and communications technology to improve their businesses, services offered by government organisations have remained deficient over the years. Aims to provide an introduction to the papers within the journal issue which focus on this theme. Design/methodology/approach – Provides an outline of the themes of the pa...

Over the years, government-to-business (G2B) as an inter-organizational system has emerged as an essential part of e-government systems. Its development and usage have not only been expected to contribute to efficient and effective operations, but G2B is also anticipated for better transparency, reduced costs and improved process. However, although a rich body of literature exists regarding G2B...

E-Governance is a powerful tool to bring about change to the government processes in the developing world. E-governance operates at the cross roads between Information and Communication Technology and government processes and is divided in three overlapping domains: e-administration, e-services and e-society. In order to be successful, e-governance needs to be firmly embedded in the existing go...

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The transition process from E-government to e-democracy involves a number of complex government changes, among which one of the important reforms for China, lies in the fundamental transform of its public finance regime from a “secret tradition” which has been holding for centuries long, towards a modern democratic open process. From 2003, Chinese government decided to release the Audit Report ...

ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has been recognized as one main revenue stream for telecom industry, and widely be used for lots of fields, such as government, automobile, health and some others. This article, which aims to explore ICT service for e-government application, focuses on the current products & services provided by telecommunication operators. After studying Verizon b...

Section Membership The latest report of our section membership shows us at 271. Now, while this is not yet at APSA’s critical point of 250, it is down from a recent high of around 300. We are offering cash prizes to the three section member who can get the most colleagues to sign up for the section between now and the 2007 Annual Meeting. As friends and colleagues sign up, let me know and I wil...