E-Government, today, is being regarded as the panacea for many of the conventional government ills, such as rampant corruption in developing countries to costly service deliveries in the developed countries. This paper provides a quick introduction to the e-government and proceeds on to describe a new framework developed for the transition of a government into an egovernment – more specific to ...

In the cognitive part, the essence of e-government as well as the initiatives for building e-government in Europe and Poland have been identified. In the empirical part, the Electronic Communication System for Public Administration (SEKAP) as an example of a "good practice" of an e-government has been presented and the diagnosis of SEKAP application is given. The achieved results can be useful ...

The era of E-government will emphasise the role local councils play in helping people access electronic services to involve voters in local decision making. Local government will offer a range of channels, so that the citizen can make a “channel of choice” Key to the programme is that public sector employees need to be involved, not just confronted with it. This paper will discuss the issues re...

Available online 2 November 2012

Taking as a starting point the recent approval of 138 co-financing proposals put forward by numerous Italian public bodies within the context of a national e-government plan, the article poses the question of whether these types of initiatives are really likely to unleash mechanisms capable of improving organisational performance. The evaluation criteria adopted in the course of the selection p...