Governments worldwide are encouraging public agencies to join e-Government initiatives in order to provide better services to their citizens and businesses; hence, methods of evaluating the readiness of individual public agencies to execute specific e-Government programs and directives are a key ingredient in the successful expansion of e-Government. To satisfy this need, a model called the eGo...

Is su e Br ie f ® • This Issue Brief analyzes recent literature about trends in the employment-based health care benefits system, proposed “market-driven” approaches to health care financing, and implications for consumers of the effect of rising costs on employment-based benefits. It examines the readiness of consumers to become more responsible for making health care financing decisions on th...

BACKGROUND Recruitment to research studies in primary care is challenging despite widespread implementation of electronic patient record (EPR) systems which potentially make it easier to identify eligible cases. METHODS Literature review and applying the learning from a European research readiness assessment tool, the TRANSFoRm International Research Readiness instrument (TIRRE), to the conte...

AIMS To investigate the correspondence between readiness for behaviour change in general and readiness for alcohol related help-seeking in particular. A related aim was to examine how, if at all, measures of dependence severity, use, and consequences were related to a composite measure depicting agreements and disagreements between general change readiness and help-seeking readiness. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Eclampsia remains a major cause of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. We examined facilitators and barriers to the use of magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) in the management of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) in health facilities in Bauchi and Sokoto States in Nigeria. METHODS Data were collected from 80 health facilities using a cross-sectional, mixed method (quanti...

A Model for the Impact of E-Government’s Readiness and Trust on Quality Services with Mediating Role E-Government Acceptance

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...

An den Hochschulen mangelt es an wirksamen Anreizen für Lehrende, sich in dem Bereich E-Teaching stärker zu engagieren. Mit welchen Mitteln können Hochschullehrende jedoch für die Nutzung mediengestützter Lehrformen interessiert werden? Anhand einer aktuellen Erhebung an deutschen Hochschulen stellt der Beitrag den gewachsenen strategischen Stellenwert von E-Learning an der Hochschule sowie die...

Indonesia ranked 96 out of 191 United Nations’ members state in e-government readiness index. Since Indonesia has a great deal of heterogeneity in term of economic development, infrastructure, and human resources quality, we tried to study the state of e-government adoption by looking at local governments. Stanton’s framework wais used to evaluate local government websites. We found that the pr...

This paper has illustrated how e-Learning techniques and technology can be used to enhance knowledge management in an enterprise and provide the benefits of both. To implement e-learning, each organization must assess its readiness to the following requirements: infrastructure, knowledge editor, organizational culture, employee attitude, computer usage and technology requirements. The challenge...