The use of wireless internet parks to facilitate adoption and diffusion of e-government services: An empirical study in qatar

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 171-184

  Al Shafi, Shafi ^a   Weerakkody, Vishanth ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E government; IPark; Qatar; Technology acceptance model; Wireless internet

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; IPARK; QATAR; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; WIRELESS INTERNET;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84870384150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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