Challenges of egovernment in developing countries: Actor-network analysis of thailand's smart ID card project

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gunawong, Panom ^a   Gao, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Egvoernment failure; Smart ID card; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; ACTOR-NETWORK; E-GOVERNMENT; ID CARDS; STRUCTURAL FLAWS; THAILAND; THROUGH THE LENS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 84867444436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2369220.2369235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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