Most evaluation processes in e-government projects are neglected, inefficient or ineffective and tend to focus on narrow aspect of project design and implementation. E-government evaluation should support organizational learning in order to ensure that errors or mistakes on previous project are not repeated. This paper presents issues of evaluation in one of e-government project; e-procurement....

Global cooperation is essential for coordinated planning and response to public health emergencies, as well as for building sufficient capacity around the world to detect, assess and respond to health events. The United States is committed to, and actively engaged in, supporting disease surveillance capacity building around the world. We recognize that there are many agencies involved in this e...

E-government requires more attention from researchers to investigate the factors that predict the success of such initiative. This study used secondary data from international reports to investigate the relationship between transparency and e-government development. Two measures used for transparency: the corruption perception index (CPI) and the open budget index (OBI) and were regressed to se...

With emphasizing the process of innovation, this paper classifies government intervention focused on innovation adoption into three dimensionalities: information support, financial support and personnel support. It also refines technological cognition into two aspects: perceived benefits including functional benefits and social benefits, and perceived costs including financial cost and risk. Th...

after the war with iraq which ended in 1988, iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on five-year national development plans. the main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. this paper investigates the extent to which iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

Governments strive to achieve improvements in delivering public services, developing and implementing public policies, responding to crisis situations, and optimizing the use of public resources, among others. Achieving such goals requires collaboration across different levels and functions of government, and across public and private sectors in a Joined-Up Government. Establishing such collabo...

Document management systems are generally assumed to hold a potential for delegating the recording and retrieval of documents to professionals such as civil servants and for supporting the coordination and control of work, so-called workflow management. This study investigates the use and organizational impact of document management systems in the Danish central government. The currently used s...

This paper describes a program of models and analyses designed to support government spending decisions associated with stimulating photovoltaic (PV) market penetration. The program has three main components: (1) theoretical analyses aimed at understanding qualitatively what general types of policies are likely to be most cost effective in stimulating PV market penetration; (2) operational mode...

As users of government services, citizens spend much of their time in transit between government agencies acting in different roles with varying responsibilities. Government agencies are providers of services virtually connected, but with limited actual integration in practice. We believe that by allowing citizens more direct access to ongoing processes in which they are involved, it could impr...

This paper describes the implementation of a decision support system that helps non-technical front-line reception staff handle complex enquiries on a wide range of local government regulations. The paper describes the knowledge ngineering and the knowledge level modelling undertaken for the prdject. The paper describes the design, implementation and architecture of the resulting distributed sy...