We propose a novel approach for organizing and describing e-government services on the envisioned Semantic Web. We combine the emerging concepts of Web services and ontologies to cater for Semantic Web enabled e-government services. This would lay the ground for the automatic selection, interoperation, and composition of e-government services.

E-government is the challenge for European Governments, to simplify, accelerate and improve, the delivery of the governmental circle services and facilities to the citizen. According to Lisbon’s Ministerial Meeting, EU group of policies and initiatives, known as E-Europe, among other policies and priorities for the Information Society, gives emphasis on Government online: ensures that citizens ...

The objective of e-government implementation is improving efficiency and effectiveness of public services using information and communication technology. There is much type of public services. One of the public services type is government information system. Theory of how to measure information system success implemented for e-government in this study for measuring government information system...

The European Union (EU) member states have over the past decade been actively developing their e-government services. These services cover a whole range of Public Administration activities aiming to integrate digital interaction between government agencies, government and citizens, as well as government and businesses. This paper provides a review of the criteria used in evaluating e-government...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that enable end-user adoption of e-government services in Pakistan, where these facilities are at a rudimentary stage. Design/methodology/approach – Following previous research on e-government services adoption, this study employs the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model to examine the influential factors ...

The paper aims to provide a framework for m-government deployment in South Africa. It examines major factors affecting m-government use by citizens, business and government; and it highlights implementation challenges. The paper argues that synergy between e and m-government should be exploited to avoid unnecessary duplication of services. Sustainability of m-government depends on its ability t...

This paper describes an integrated security system for electronic-government services. Many governments are transforming manual government services to electronic government services. This transformation is in most cases done without involving users of the services. This makes users of these services have little trust in the e-government. Security is in most cases not addressed from the early st...

Mobile government, which is an emergent phenomenon, represents a solution for many countries to reach their citizens and to improve the services of government-to-citizens (G2C). Hence, most researchers have merely focused on the citizens’ adoption and usage issues, security, implementation and transformation, and the success factors of m-government services. However, in order to proceed with th...

The main objective of e-Government is to better serve citizens. However, citizens’ likelihood to use e-Government services is very low especially in the context of developing countries. Lack of trust in e-Government systems has been recognized as one of the major barriers to e-Government services adoption. Citizens’ decision to use online services is dependent on their level of trust in the tec...