Agricultural e-government services: An implementation framework and case study

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 337-347

  Ntaliani, Maria ^a   Costopoulou, Constantina ^a   Karetsos, Sotirios ^a   Tambouris, Efthimios ^b   Tarabanis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Electronic government; Web services; Workflow patterns

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES; E-GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; OPEN-SOURCE SOLUTIONS; PUBLIC SERVICES; ROADMAP; TAM MODEL; TECHNICAL INTEROPERABILITY; TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT; WORKFLOW PATTERNS;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INTEROPERABILITY; MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; WEB SERVICES;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; FARMERS ATTITUDE; INTERNET; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MODERNIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; SERVICE PROVISION; STAKEHOLDER;

GREECE;

EID: 74149088540     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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