Towards Electronic Governance - Gaining Evidence for a Paradigm Shift in Governance From Federated Identity Management

The paper is conceptual in nature and provides insight into the ongoing research on electronic governance. The core argument developed in this paper is that the rapid development of information and communication technologies in the last twenty years has given rise to a paradigm shift of how collective problems are being solved in the future. The research presented in this paper builds on the Electronic Market Hypothesis developed by Malone at al. (1987) and provides empirical evidence from federated identity development. The paper thus contributes to academic theory development of electronic governance and reduces the current confusion of what electronic governance is or might be.