Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy: Volume 10 Issue 4

Editorial

Zahir Irani, Muhammad Kamal

Common Services Centres (CSCs) as an approach to bridge the digital divide: Reflecting on challenges and obstacles

Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Ganesh P. Sahu, Nripendra P. Rana, Monika Singh, Rajesh K. Chandwani

Despite the increasing technological capabilities and its affordability, a significantly large proportion of developing nations’ population are still lacking resources to own…

E-voting adoption in a developing country

Mohammad Kamel Alomari

The purpose of this paper is to present factors that affect e-voting adoption in the Middle East and, in particular, Jordan. Changing the election voting method for the people in…

Facebook usage in a local government: A content analysis of page owner posts and user posts

Peter Bellström, Monika Magnusson, John Sören Pettersson, Claes Thorén

To fully grasp the potential of using social media, one must know what governments and citizens are communicating in these media. Despite much statistics published, there is a…

From bureaucratic machines to inter-organizational networks: Characterizing the response to the World Trade Center crisis

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Theresa A. Pardo, Djoko Sigit Sayogo

This paper aims to argue that the structure of the response to the World Trade Center (WTC) crisis can be characterized as an inter-organizational network and the majority of the…

Navigating troubled waters: bringing the e-democratic ship into safe harbour?

Andreas Møller Jørgensen, Kim Normann Andersen

Whereas prior research has conceptualized and empirically investigated reinforcement and amplification mechanisms, this paper aims to propose a framework of power that captures…

Emerging forms of inter-organizational and cross-sector collaborations in e-government initiatives: Implications for participative development of information systems

Sofie Pilemalm, Ida Lindgren, Elina Ramsell

This study aims to explore recent public sector trends, inter-organizational and cross-sector collaborations, and analyzes these in terms of implications for participative…

Use levels of electronic government services among German citizens: An empirical analysis of objective household and personal predictors

Torsten J. Gerpott, Nima Ahmadi

To better understand the use intensity of e-government service offerings among citizens, a considerable number of studies have examined correlations between various attitudinal…