Webbing governance: global trends across national-level public agencies
Communications of the ACM
Emerging Information Technologies: Improving Decisions, Cooperation, and Infrastructure
Emerging Information Technologies: Improving Decisions, Cooperation, and Infrastructure
Powering up: Public Managers Take Control of Information
Powering up: Public Managers Take Control of Information
Predictors of on-line services and e-participation: a cross-national comparison
Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
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The "digital divide" in the utilization of e-government between the industrialized and developing countries stands to spell serious consequences for the latter's political and economic development. Because African countries rank very low on the global measure of e-government readiness, critical variables were studied to find out which policy and programmatic areas should become priority in bridging the gap. Findings from a multiple regression analysis indicate that the low ranking of African countries on the global e-government readiness index indicates that the countries would need to develop, first, the internal utilization capacity as well as an enhanced public access to information, communication, and technology (ICT) infrastructures. These would, in turn, generate the demand necessary to spur increased government investment in ICT infrastructural development. What is mostly required is public sector leadership that creates the enabling environment for increased public and private sector participation in e-government interactions.