Electronic government (e-government) initiatives are in their early stages in many developing countries and faced with various issues pertaining to their implementation of e-government services. Like many other developing countries, the e-government initiative in the state of Qatar has faced a number of challenges since its inception in 2000. This study utilises the Unified Theory of Acceptance...

International e-government implies cross-national coupling of administrative systems. As administrative concepts and classifications reflect social and cultural differences, international e-government applications are even more complex than those within the national boundaries. We will illustrate this by describing the cross-national differences in the concept of marriage, and discuss some of t...

The mission of the National Center for Digital Government: Integrating Information and Institutions is threefold: to build global research capacity, to advance practice, and to strengthen the network of researchers and practitioners engaged in building and using technology for governance. We seek to apply and extend the social sciences in research at the intersection of governance, institutions...

The objective of the paper is to contribute to the discussion about the ideas and concepts of electronic governance. In the first section, the paper describes the authors’ conceptual model of electronic governance and its theoretical underpinnings. The second section of the paper presents the cases of the city of Tampere (Finland) and Issy-Les-Moulineaux (France). The two cities are considered ...

Community Management informatization is an important component of urban informatiization. Community E-government coordination work platform is the key to community management informatization. This paper proposed a system mode of community E-government coordination work platform, and gave a description of new operation process with the case of Shanghai citizens least income guarantee applying.

Assessing effects of eGovernment initiatives is considered an important but challenging endeavor. Assessments are, among other things, important to justify e-government investments. They are challenging because they are complex, often based on locally defined indicators, many times overemphasizing financial effects, imprecise, faced with a number of contingencies and very seldom validated. Cons...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between e-government and corruption in developed and developing countries. Specifically, we investigate two issues – (1) the impact of the use of e-government on corruption in countries around the world and (2) whether the impact of e-government on corruption will be higher in developed or developing countries. In order to examine these r...