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Prospects and Challenges of E-Government in Black Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria and Cameroon

Prospects and Challenges of E-Government in Black Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria and Cameroon
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Author(s): Floribert Patrick C. Endong (University of Calabar, Nigeria)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 21
Source title: Proliferation of Open Government Initiatives and Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ayse Kok (Bogazici University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4987-1.ch006

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Abstract

Most scholars' perspectives on e-government development in Africa have tended to be monolithic. This has been irrespective of the fact that African nations have been adopting relatively different approaches to e-governance. Though the dominant tendency among them has been to struggle to have a certain amount of web presence through the creation of e-government web portals, each African country has designed its own (customized) e-government initiatives. It will therefore be very interesting to explore the extent to which the prospects and challenges of e-governance in Africa have been varying across countries. This chapter attempts to fill this gap in knowledge through a comparative study of e-government implementation in Nigeria and Cameroon. The chapter is divided into three main parts. The first part provides a conceptual definition and a brief history of e-government. The second part explores the phenomena of ICTs and e-governance in Africa while the last part provides a comparative perspective on the implementation of e-government in Nigeria and Cameroon.

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