E-Government Evaluation: Reflections on Two Organisational Studies

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Jones;Zahir Irani;Amir Sharif;Marinos Themistocleous

  • Affiliations:
  • CONWY County Borough Council;Brunel University;Brunel University;Brunel University

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 04
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Senior executives in public sector organisations have been charged with delivering an e-Government agenda. A key emerging area of research is that of the evaluation of e-Government, given that economic factors have traditionally dominated any traditional ICT evaluation process. In this paper the authors report the findings from two interpretive in-depth case studies in the UK public sector, which explore e-Governmentorganisational evaluation within a public sector setting. This paper seeks to offer insights to organisational and managerial aspects surrounding the improvement of knowledge and understanding of e-Government evaluation. The findings that are elicited from the case studies are analysed and presented in terms of a framework derived from organisational analysis to improve e-Government evaluation, with key lessons learnt being extrapolated from practice. The paper concludes that e-Governmentevaluation is both an under developed and under managed area, and calls for senior executives to engage more with the e-Government agenda and for organisations to review e-Government evaluation to improve evaluation practice.