This paper is a preliminary report on using FLOSSmole data retrieved from open source repositories (forges) to calculate Business Readiness Rating scores.

This paper proposes parameters for developing a comprehensive globally accepted e-government maturity model. We investigate existing maturity models and their stages of growth, and identify various parameters based on the stages defined by Quirk’s model, and additionally incorporating parameters such as secrecy, privacy & personalization. The proposed parameters for eGovernment maturity models ...

The construct of motivational readiness is introduced and explored. Motivational readiness is the willingness or inclination, whether or not ultimately realized, to act in the service of a desire. Building on prior relevant conceptions which include, among others, animal learning models (Hull, 1943; Spence, 1956; Tolman, 1955), and personality approaches (e.g., Atkinson, 1964; Lewin, 1935), a g...

Governments worldwide are encouraging public agencies to join e-government initiatives in order to provide better services to their citizens and businesses. Hence governments have a need to determine the readiness of individual public agencies to embark in such initiatives (e.g., in order to define policies and improvement programs in case they are not ready). In this paper, I establish this pr...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the constructs of Technology Readiness Index (TRI) and the Decomposed Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory (DEDT) as determinants of satisfaction and continuous use intention in e-learning services applied in public organizations. The research was conducted by online survey in a sample of 343 employees of two public organizations in Brazil who have had e-lea...