E-government includes fast and improved citizen service from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, as well as the restructuring and reengineering of organizations and their services, through the increased usage and exploitation of the capabilities and services of ICT’s and the Internet. The escalation of the e-government services begins with easy access to governmental information and p...

M-government involves the use of mobile technologies in the provision of public sector services. Currently, there are powerful political, economic and technical drivers for the development of m-government. Less attention, however, has been paid to the users of mobile technologies and their likely uptake of m-government services. This paper makes two contributions to our growing understanding of...

this paper discusses e-government, in particular the challenges that face adoption of e-government in Saudi Arabia. In this research we define e-government as a matrix of stakeholders: governments to governments, governments to business and governments to citizens, using information and communications technology to deliver and consume services. egovernment services still face many challenges in...

Electronic government (e-government) has shown encouraging results in developed countries in the context of delivering electronic information and services to citizens. However, despite the many lessons that can be learned from the experiences of those egovernment initiatives, developing countries are still faced with various issues pertaining to their implementation of e-government services. Li...

E-government generally refers to the delivery of national or local government information and services via the Internet or other digital means. Electronic government, or “e-government,” is the process of transacting business between the public and government through the use of automated systems and the Internet network, more commonly referred to as the World Wide Web. E-government is defined as...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has seen exceptional growth in the last decade in Ethiopia and Africa. Delivery of health care services is an issue for governments in most developing countries. However, service and quality depend on the availability of financial and human resources along with the organizational and management capability to transform the resources to meet national...

Transition to e-government services is a worldwide tendency. However, each country possesses its own specifics, which need to be taken into account. The given study is dedicated to transition towards egovernment services in Russia. A method for formal specification of Russian government services is presented. This method can be used for e-government services optimizing, restructuring and checki...

E-government has emerged as one of the most promising means to reform the public sector. E-government is now being used to improve services for assisted living. The purpose of assisted living services is to provide ways for elderly people to continue to live at home. However, these services require formal decisions by local government officials. Therefore Swedish municipalities aim to move cont...

This has implications for the autonomy of these governments to make independent policy decisions. Taking advantage of the financial crisis faced by poor debtor countries, the World Bank and other international funders use the need for loans to impose conditionalities, including the adoption of various health sector reforms, even when these are not the best options for the particular country con...

Rapid advances in technology and the advent of the Internet have redefined public expectation of the government and its services. With the great support from Hong Kong and Singapore government, e-government system has achieved temporary success by offering some everyday services through virtual Internet. During last year’s Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, e-governments in Hong...