International trade negotiations among national governments and organizations are usually arduous and complicated. We propose a framework that supports government to government negotiation. With this framework, governments can keep track of previous negotiations using a database of negotiation records in an electronic platform. Moreover, the framework supports searching, sharing and learning pa...

This paper examines the development of electronic government (egovernment) in Thailand. The development of information technology (IT) projects in Thai public agencies was initiated in the early 1990s, albeit without developing a national IT master plan or establishing a national IT agency. However, when many problems arose in the use of IT in public agencies, the Thai government formulated in ...

E-Governance is today one of important issues in different agendas of politicians, activists and researchers. The complexity of this topic, blended with the uncertainty of the future generated by ICT revolution, lead to many contradictory interpretations, predictions and analyses. One of spectacular contradictions related with e-governance has to do with developing countries. We consider the co...

The large spreading of e-democracy and e-participatory tools and environments showed, and is still showing, that technologies offer new direction for dealing with the challenge of scaling the deliberative democracy perspective up to the urban governance scale [24] [37]. The recent growth of Urban Living Labs and Human Smart City initiatives is disclosing a promising bridge between the micro-sca...

The Information and Communication Technologies play an important role in rural development. The Empowerment of rural communities is crucial for the development of the rural region. Bringing the people in the rural region in the mainstream of the digital technologies to access and adopt modern technologies is a major concern now. Rural Development implies both, the economic development of the pe...

This paper is conceptual in nature: in it, we seek to identify the current trends of State transformation, combine them with the changes in the new information and communication technologies, and extrapolate this combination into the near future. More precisely, the goal of the paper is to analyse how the New Information and Communication Technologies shape the newly emerging governance mechani...

The article aims to investigate how key e-Governance dimensions related to openness, such as transparency and accountability, which are a necessary condition for reaching a high maturity of e-Government, may not be sufficient for open government. For this purpose, an interpretative framework to identify country attitudes towards Open Government is proposed and it is applied to two cases drawn f...

The primary aim of the e-government applications is the fast citizen service and the accomplishment of governmental functions. This fact, combined with the increasing familiarization of the citizens with the new technologies, has led to a generic transition of the governmental models from the traditional to the electronic administration. In addressing the above context, this manuscript presents...

The aim of the present paper is a contribution to the appropriate mechanism for good governance of particularly in developing countries with reference to India with the involvement of Information technology in the system of the government and for the betterment of the society. It highlights the significance and implementation challenges of EGovernance while considering factual specialty growing...