Sustainability of e-government project success: Cases from Ethiopia

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 3649-3660

  Lessa, Lemma ^a   Belachew, Mesfin ^b   Anteneh, Salehu ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Technology of Ethiopia ^*  (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

E government; Failure; Framework; Success; Sustainability; WoredaNet

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY RESEARCH; DETERMINANT FACTORS; E-GOVERNMENT; ETHIOPIA; FRAMEWORK; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; POLICY MAKERS; PROJECT SUCCESS; QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIES; SUCCESS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; WOREDANET;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84870376934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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