This paper overviews the rapid rise of mobile technologies, particular wireless communications devices. It outlines four emerging application areas where wireless technologies hold great potential for digital government efforts. It concludes by highlight the lack of research on wireless technologies in the social science, and the need to rapidly expand efforts in this area.

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E-government has become popular in Sri Lanka with the implementation of various e-government initiatives. The public value of these e-government initiatives, however, is not clear due to a lack of rigorous assessment so far on the performance of such e-government initiatives. This paper presents an empirical study in evaluating the public value of e-government in Sri Lanka within a conceptual f...

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1047-3203/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2013.07.008 q This work was supported in part by the National Science Council under contract number NSC-99-2916-I-011-002-A1, and it was also partially supported by the 111 Project under the Grant No. 111-2-14 and One Hundred Person Project 2012, Sichuan Province. ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mai...