Assessing local readiness for City E-Governance in Europe

International Journal of Electronic Government Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 17-36

  Paskaleva, Krassimira ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment framework; City e government; E governance policy model; Europe; ICT adoption; Local readiness

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK; E-GOVERNMENTS; EUROPE; ICT ADOPTIONS; LOCAL READINESS; POLICY MODEL;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 56549083495     PISSN: 15483886     EISSN: 15483894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jegr.2008100102     Document Type: Article

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