Evaluating existing initiatives for developing electronic government (e-government) in addition to identifying main challenges can provide valuable learning points in contributing towards efficient and effective implementation of e-government projects. The digital divide, issues of cyber security, privacy and primarily trust have been identified as the main challenges for implementing e-governm...

E-government has become an important phenomenon which attracted every country toward itself. However e-government is facing challenges which have significant effects on its performance. In order to overcome these challenges good strategies are inevitable for the e-government implementation. In this paper we analyzed Saudi Arabia's e-government using strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and...

Adoption and implementation of e-government within local government organizations are influenced by many external factors. These factors are often perceived as forces or pressures that influence local government decisions to adopt and implement the initiatives. This study uses the concept of coercive force from institutional theory to explain those external pressures influencing egovernment ado...

E-government is a promising technological innovation to improve government performance in developing countries. The potential benefits of e-government include less corruption, increased transparency, greater convenience, revenue growth, and cost reduction. However, most egovernment projects failed because of its complexity and its inherent political process. Meanwhile as young fields e-governme...

Despite increased research interest on e-government, the field currently lacks sound theoretical frameworks that can be useful in addressing two key issues concerning the implementation of e-government systems: a) a better understanding of the factors influencing the adoption of e-government systems, and b) the integration of various egovernment applications. The objective of the present paper ...

This paper reports from a comprehensive study of e-government implementation in Ireland, conducted over the last two years. An in-depth case study is presented detailing the development of a dual strategy for implementation and provides a comparison of the results from this approach. The success and shortcomings of both approaches are identified, providing in-depth analysis into the identificat...

This paper analyses the proposed implementation strategies of e-government in Sri Lanka. Firstly, the vision of e-Sri Lanka is presented, that is the information and communication technology development roadmap to achieve e-governance. Secondly, a literature study on e-government start-up is given. Also given in the literature study is an approach for analysing implementation strategies; this a...

This paper presents preliminary results of an ongoing study of e-government implementation in Lebanon. Following suggestions by various scholars that students of e-government employ theory to strengthen our knowledge about ICT for development, we apply a neoinstitutional theoretical lens to understand the role of international donor agencies that led the Lebanese public authorities, since 2000,...

Non-interoperability between government agency e-service delivery mechanisms posing the technical challenge, and the lack of formulated modelling and implementation framework is the main methodological problem in achieving seamless E-government integration. In this paper integration of E-government is investigated (at Service Delivery Level) to achieve a seamless and cost-effective transition t...