E-Government implementation challenges: A case study

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1379-1393

  El Haddadeh, Ramzi ^a   Weerakkody, Vishanth ^a   Al Shafi, Shafi H ^b   Ali, Maged ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Challenges; E government; Implementation

Indexed keywords

CHALLENGES; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION; E-GOVERNMENT RESEARCH; IMPLEMENTATION; POLITICAL CONTEXT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84870431756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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