Improved interoperability between public organisations as well as between public and private organisations is of critical importance to make electronic government more successful. In this paper, stages of e-government interoperability is identified and discussed. Four stages are presented: 1 work process stage 2 knowledge sharing stage 3 value creation stage 4 strategy alignment stage.

E-government has become an important phenomenon which attracted every country toward itself. However e-government is facing challenges which have significant effects on its performance. In order to overcome these challenges good strategies are inevitable for the e-government implementation. In this paper we analyzed Saudi Arabia's e-government using strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and...

WikiLeaks' recent public disclosure of troves of classified U.S. Government records has been big news around the world, but it has been particularly significant in the open government community. For decades, groups like ours that are concerned with open government have been working to reform serious problems associated with pervasive and excessive U.S. Government secrecy, including the overclas...

A government is a huge and complex organisation, whose operations and strategic focus could be greatly enhanced by the well focussed application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support improvements in productivity, management effectiveness and ultimately, the quality of services offered to citizens. While the benefits of ICT in government cannot be disputed, there are sev...

E-government initiatives are in their infancy in many developing countries. The success of these initiatives is dependent on government support as well as citizens’ adoption of e-government services. This research identified the attitudes and perceptions of the citizens of Kuwait, a developing country, towards the adoption of e-government services. Based on previous research exploring the deter...

All around the world, governments are eagerly looking toward a digital future, but their view is obstructed by the challenges they face in the modernizing such vast enterprises. This study concentrates on a Government-to-Business (G2B) relationship in which the development and implementation processes of a government-based e-procurement system are explored. This study does not represent the ove...

This paper analyses the results of several years of benchmarking of public online services in Norway. We compare these data, which are showing significant differences in measured quality between small and larger municipalities, with results from a comprehensive survey measuring citizens’ satisfaction with public services. Finding that these observed differences are not supported by the user sur...