During the last three decades, many governments have incorporated Information and Communication Technologies in their internal and external processes, a phenomenon widely known as electronic government (e-Government). Rationales for eGovernment include increasing public services’ efficiency, speed, transparency, accountability, etc., and enhancing relations between government and stakeholders (...

there is a consensus among housing experts and policy makers that there are not enough resources for government alone to address growing urban housing challenges in many developing countries. consequently, a paradigm shift from government provision to partnerships between the public and private sectors is advocated. this study examined the prospects and challenges of public-private partnerships...

In this paper we are applying inter-organizational concepts from the industrial/business network approach on empirical findings from an e-government case, in order to describe and better understand challenges in one-stop government e-service development. We analyze our case by using concepts that characterize an inter-organizational relationship in terms of its level of continuity, complexity, ...

In this paper we are applying inter-organizational concepts from the industrial/business network approach on empirical findings from an e-government case, in order to describe and better understand challenges in one-stop government e-service development. We analyze our case by using concepts that characterize an inter-organizational relationship in terms of its level of continuity, complexity, ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present challenges and opportunities of e-government implementation in South Africa with special reference to service delivery and implications for libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an in-depth literature review from government documents, presidential state of the nation addresses, global and nation reports on e-government, ...

Majority of the studies reported in e-government literature identify the challenges involved in any e-government implementation from technical or project implementation perspective. In contrast, in this study, we take the citizen centric perspective to identify the factors and issues that influence the success of e-government implementation at local level. In this paper, we report the findings ...

E-government is one of the most popular applications in the Web base applications. It helps people to do those work online, access the government sites, apply for online jobs, access to importent data from the government database, and on top of that it also helps the government employees to access cameras and sensors over the country. However there are many challenges to keep the government dat...

Developing countries have established promising e-Government initiatives with the objective of enhancing the accessibility of government services and information for their citizens. However, governments tend to design and launch online services based on their understanding of what citizens need, surprisingly, without actually measuring what increases citizens’ willingness to adopt web-enabled s...

A new approach is emerging for implementing e-Government. That approach draws on lessons learned by both “dot.coms” and brick-and-mortar (government and commercial) institutions in addressing challenges of the Digital Economy to enable “transformation by design”. “Transformation by design” marries a step-by-step approach to changing existing business infrastructure with innovation to accelerate...

Purpose – To contribute to a better understanding of the progress and the success vs. failure in egovernment development, based on case studies of two inter-organizational e-service projects. Design/Methodology/Approach – The analysis in the paper is made from a) an e-government systems development life-cycle perspective and b) a challenge and success factor perspective. The point of departure ...