Setting interoperability standards for e-government: An exploratory case study

Electronic Government

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 379-394

  dos Santos, Ernani M ^a   Reinhard, Nicolau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electronic government; Electronic government implementation; Electronic government in developing countries; Government information sharing; Government information system integration; Information technology standardisation; Interoperability; Interoperability standards; Standardisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448955657     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2007.015033     Document Type: Article

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