Benchmarking e-Government: A comparison of frameworks for computing e-Government index and ranking

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 354-362

  Rorissa, Abebe ^a   Demissie, Dawit ^a   Pardo, Theresa ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; E Government index; E Government ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959241874     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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