E-government implementation in Zambia: Contributing factors

Electronic Government

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 484-508

  Weerakkody, Vishanth ^a   Dwivedi, Yogesh Kumar ^b   Brooks, Laurence ^a   Williams, Michael D ^b   Mwange, Anthony ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Challenges; E government; ICTs; Implementation; Information and Communications Technologies; Stages; Zambia

Indexed keywords

EID: 35449002803     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2007.015040     Document Type: Article

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