The emergence of e-government services in East Africa: Tracking adoption patterns and associated factors

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 60, Issue , 2004, Pages 438-445

  Kaaya, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adoption patterns; adoption rate; diffusion of innovations; e government; East Africa; Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda; website analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION PATTERNS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS; E-GOVERNMENT; EAST AFRICA; TANZANIA;

DIFFUSION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INNOVATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 35448989952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1052220.1052276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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