The IRMA Community
Newsletters
Research IRM
Click a keyword to search titles using our InfoSci-OnDemand powered search:
|
E-Government Success around the World: Cases, Empirical Studies, and Practical Recommendations
|
Author(s)/Editor(s): J. Ramon Gil-Garcia (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico)
Copyright: ©2013
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4173-0
ISBN13: 9781466641730
ISBN10: 1466641738
EISBN13: 9781466641747
Purchase
|
DescriptionWhile some e-government projects fail to deliver the expected benefits due to numerous technical, organizational, institutional, and contextual factors, information technology continues to be utilized by international governments to achieve countless benefits. E-Government Success around the World: Cases, Empirical Studies, and Practical Recommendations presents the latest findings in the area of e-government success. Written for academics and professionals, this book aims to improve the understanding of e-government success factors and cultural contexts in the field of governmental information technologies in various disciplines such as political science, public administration, information and communication sciences, and sociology.
Reviews and Testimonials
For professionals, public managers, scholars, and researchers working in government information technologies, Gil-Garcia (public administration, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico) compiles 17 case studies of successes in e-government in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe, contributed by information systems, public administration, public policy, communication and media studies, political science, and other specialists from those regions. They examine topics like outlying regions and inequality, service enhancement through public-private partnerships, information technology services for migrants, Medicare and Medicaid, programs to alleviate poverty, measures of trust in government, e-government readiness and success factors, mobile governance, city council websites, employees' experiences with Internet-based systems at research universities, citizen participation, infrastructure, social media, evaluation, and e-participation.
– Annotation ©2013 Book News Inc. Portland, OR
As the title reads, the creators of this work have generally tried to depict
the bright side of e-government initiatives around the world, which
in turn can contribute to the better development and management of
such endeavors. By shedding some light on the factors influencing
the optimal implementation of e-government, texts such as this can
be considered as a road map to better utilizing extensive investments
made worldwide in e-government. They also provide researchers with
conceptual, empirical, quantitative, and qualitative issues as well as
methodologies. In summary, the present volume, with significant insight
from different dimensions of e-government, shows digital communication
and information flow at top-down and bottom-up levels
of civil societies from the e-government perspective. It is a valuable reference
for various audiences including policy makers, professionals,
professors, students, public managers, and researchers in the fields of
Computer, Communication, Political Sciences, International Relations,
and Information Science. This collected work is an important addition
to literature.
– Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam, Government Information Quarterly
Author's/Editor's Biography
J. Gil-Garcia (Ed.)
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and the Director of the Data Center for Applied Research in Social Sciences at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. Dr. Gil-Garcia is a member of the National System of Researchers as Researcher Level II. In 2009, he was considered the most prolific author in the field of digital government research worldwide. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) and a Faculty Affiliate at the National Center for Digital Government, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Gil-Garcia is the author or co-author of articles in numerous prestigious academic journals. Some of his publications are among the most cited in the field of digital government research worldwide. His research interests include collaborative electronic government, inter-organizational information integration, smart cities and smart governments, adoption and implementation of emergent technologies, information technologies and organizations, digital divide policies, new public management, public policy evaluation, and multi-method research approaches.
|
|