The public sector plays an important role in the economic growth and development of developing countries. The application of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may help improve the public sector by contributing to new services and processes that address citizens as well as government-to-government services, involve citizens more directly in decisions being made, and contrib...

Designing user-friendly public e-services is one of the prime concerns of most e-government initiatives and programmes. In this context a life-event based approach seems to be one of the most promising. There are several research projects and several live-event description and design methodologies under development, most of them still in an early stage. In the paper we are trying to focus and c...

International trade negotiations among national governments and organizations are usually arduous and complicated. We propose a framework that supports government to government negotiation. With this framework, governments can keep track of previous negotiations using a database of negotiation records in an electronic platform. Moreover, the framework supports searching, sharing and learning pa...

With the increasing number of citizens accessing the Internet, governments at all levels around the world have no other choice but to utilize information technology, especially the Internet, to provide improved services to their citizens. This paper studies and analyzes the status and challenges of e-government services within early childhood education context in ten of the largest municipaliti...

This paper firstly introduces the E-commerce and deeply explores current status of Chinese B2B E-commerce and problems existing in small and medium-sized enterprises. Secondly, based on the study of the E-commerce, the author studies successful business model of Alibaba and Made-in-China. Finally, according to Alibaba’s and Made-in-China’s successful business model experience, the author reflec...

Sustainable development is a world-wide major concern, required in every domain of life, including that of government. E-services are widely acknowledged for the contribution they make to e-government. The research question raised in this study is: What is the existing status of e-service sustainability research? The research method used is a literature study that adopts a concept-centric appro...

This paper presents a quality ontology that formalizes all the needed knowledge for the realization of a multi-perspective and adaptive evaluation of e-government services. Different perspectives are taken into account and the mappings between them are defined using the presented ontology, enabling a comprehensive and holistic view of quality. Based on the quality ontology presented, the evalua...

Implementation of transactional services in e-government is a very critical function for the development and success of a comprehensive e-government. Empirical efforts to conceptualize the organization, definition and delimitation to implement transactional services are often limited, to making public services available by means of online facilities on the internet, without taking into account ...

In the field of electronic government (e-government) the area of government-to-business (G2B) has received limited attention, compared to the much more researched area of government-to-citizen (G2C) [7] [11] [22]. This research explores the factors affecting the development of the G2B domain. Specifically we look at the primary modes of interaction that a business has with e-government, and exa...