E-Government implementation and acceptance: Challenges to increase public e-services take-up in Lebanon

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 9-26

  Harfouche, Antoine ^a   Kalika, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b Ecole de Management de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

Digital divide; E government; E services; E services Take Up; Public online services

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DIVIDE; E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION; E-SERVICES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LEBANON; ON-LINE SERVICE; VALUE OF SERVICE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84870266973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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