Recognition of Obstacles and Providing Different Guidelines and Promotion of Electronic Government in Iran

Electronic Government is one of the special concepts which has been performed successfully within recent decades. Electronic government is a digital, wall-free government with a virtual organization for presenting of online governmental services and further cooperation in different political/social activities. In order to have a successful implementation of electronic government strategy and benefiting from its complete potential and benefits and generally for establishment and applying of electronic government, it is necessary to have different infrastructures as the basics of electronic government with lack of which it is impossible to benefit from mentioned services. For this purpose, in this paper we have managed to recognize relevant obstacles for establishment of electronic government in Iran. All required data for recognition of obstacles were collected from statistical society of involved specialists of Ministry of Communications & Information Technology of Iran and Information Technology Organization of Tehran Municipality through questionnaire. Then by considering of five-point Likert scope and μ =3 as the index of relevant factors of proposed model, we could specify current obstacles against electronic government in Iran along with some guidelines and proposal in this regard. According to the results, mentioned obstacles for applying of electronic government in Iran are as follows: Technical & technological problems, Legal, judicial & safety problems, Economic problems and Humanistic Problems. Keywords—Government, Electronic Government, Information Technology, Obstacles, Iran. This work was supported by the Department of Research, University of Tehran, University of Abdolrahman SufiRazi Zanjan and Islamic Azad University, Khodabandeh Branch, Zanjan, Iran. Ezzatollah Asgharizadeh is with the Department of Industrial Management, University of Tehran (Phone: 0098-21-88008969; fax:0098-21-88003088; (email: [email protected]) Mehdi Ajalli is with the Department of Industrial Management, University of Abdolrahman SufiRazi Zanjan and Roozbeh University, Zanjan, Iran. (email: [email protected]) Ali Medghalchi is with the Department of Engineering of Project Management, Islamic Azad University, Khodabandeh Branch, Zanjan, Iran. (Phone and fax: 0098-241-4262377; e-mail: [email protected]) S.Rahim Safavi M.M is with the Department of Industrial Management, Payam Noor University, Zanjan, Iran (e-mail: [email protected])