Book Chapter10.1007/978-94-007-1245-4_5
Global E-Government
Barney Warf
- 01 Jan 2013
- pp 115-138
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TL;DR: There are many definitions of e-government, but all essentially point to the use of information technologies to facilitate the delivery of government information and services, restructure administrative procedures, and enhance citizen participation.
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Abstract: As the internet has spread in size and scope, its applications have included the interactions between many governments and their citizens. In addition to the growth of personal and commercial uses of the internet, electronic government, or e-government, expanded in tandem throughout the world. User-friendly graphical interfaces expedited this process enormously and opened the possibility of two-way flows of digital information between citizens and their states (and more recently, have paved the way for mobile governance, or m-government). There are many definitions of e-government (Yildiz 2007), but all essentially point to the use of information technologies (typically the internet) to facilitate the delivery of government information and services, restructure administrative procedures, and enhance citizen participation. Not surprisingly, the topic has drawn considerable scholarly.
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