E-government projects are getting a strong attention from the UAE government, keen on using this technology to facilitate its services to citizens and customers. In Dubai, e-Government's target is ambitious: it is required that over 90 per cent of the services on offer from the key government departments in Dubai are offered online by the end of 2007. E-government projects can easily be put at ...

Electronic government (e-government) has established as an effective mechanism for increasing government productivity and efficiency and a key enabler of citizencentric services. However, e-government implementation is surrounded by technological, governing and social issues, which have to be considered and treated carefully in order to facilitate this change. This research attempts to explore ...

Despite increased research interest on e-Government, existing research has not adequately addressed two key issues concerning the implementation and integration of e-government systems: a better understanding of the factors influencing the adoption and acceptance of e-Government systems, and a better understanding of the factors that influence the effective usage of these systems. The objective...

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...

Governments worldwide are increasingly engaged in the national e-government initiative as it is perceived to be an enabler for the improved transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of services delivered to citizens and businesses. Failure of the governments to fulfill basic requirements and perform its duties in supporting the initiative has been coined as one of the factors that hinder egove...

Though nations across the world are realizing the importance of e-Government, its successful adoption and acceptance by citizens still remains an elusive phenomenon. Citizen trust on eGovernment, which appears to be a major contributor for e-Government adoption and acceptance, has not been fully explored by researchers and governments. In this study, we use the theoretical lens of ‘citizen trus...

Implementation of e-Government are expected to be solution in the care system, but in the process will be a challenge that has a risk of failure. In this study will result in a maturity model that becomes the size of maturity/readiness of a government institution when it will make the process of e-Government implementation. With the results of this dissertation study is expected to have the rea...

The literature on electronic government (e-government) often assumes that there exists one suitable model that can be adopted in all contexts. This chapter emphasizes the constitutive role of political and institutional context in the design, implementation, and impacts of e-government initiatives, the understanding of which require a geographically-specific analysis. It begins with a summary o...

While most early e-government efforts were concentrated on developed countries, in the recent past, it has also become popular in many developing countries. Most notably are the Middle Eastern countries that have continued to invest significantly into e-government initiatives in the last five years. However, compared to the West, the progress of e-government implementation and diffusion has bee...