Understanding the complexity in electronic government: Implications from the digital divide literature

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 745-755

  Helbig, Natalie C ^a   Gil García, J Ramón ^a,b   Ferro, Enrico ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Instituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Digital government; Electronic government; IT success; Policy implications; Theory

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DIVIDE; DIGITAL GOVERNMENT; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; IT SUCCESS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; THEORY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84869779144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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