This book provides a field with a definitive, interdisciplinary and understandable review of recent IT and related research of particular importance to digital Government. The book covers various new information technologies being applied to all levels of government services. Read Ahead…
Title: E-Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation Editors: Hsinchun Chen, etal. Publisher: Springer Year: 2008
The Government although is of the people, for the people and by the people. They could reach only the few 20% of them before the information and communication technology came. The book emphasises the role of Information technology used to increase public access to information, to provide more convenient and timely transaction services, and to increase citizen participation in the establishment of government regulations and other processes. The book is a landmark in the hot topic of the year 2008 on e- Governance. It is a book of 730 pages published by Springer compiled by eminent editors who have been writing books on electronic Government.
The compilation of works include the common areas of healthcare and safety, law enforcement, security, and justice, education, land use, and many others of government people's interest.
The book is meant for governing administrative officers to practicing and implementing kiosk employees serving at the other end. The new digital government initiatives taken by concerned policy makers will be benefited by going through it as it covers the fast-changing field in a way that it will be a reference guide to them.
It provides the field with a definitive, interdisciplinary, and understandable review of recent IT and related research of particular importance to digital government. The book also includes explorations of current and future policy implications, and case studies of successful applications in a variety of government settings.
The topics covered are uniformly distributed under three Units. Unit I is describing Foundation of Digital Government and Public Policy. It covers the international and related social, public, and legal issues (such as privacy, confidentiality, trust and security) that are evolving from governments' new ways of doing business. Unit II is searching on the various concepts on Information Technology Research. It examines current IT research that is impacting the advancement of digital government purposes and initiatives. In this section, a wide range of technologies are discussed with the objective of outlining a framework of state-of-the- art technologies showing the most promise for e-government initiatives. Unit III has put the Case Studies together for making reader understand and know better by the experiences narrated by organizations/countries from all aspects. High impact projects are explored in detail, with a “lessons learned” discussion included with each case study.
The most important point of the book is that it describes citizen access to government statistical information in addition to the evaluation to the factors for successful e-government. The coverage of geospatial information system and technologies for digital government includes in it collaborative crisis management.
In addition to its primary subject content, each chapter also includes suggested readings, online resources, and questions for discussion to stimulate and guide the reader's interest.
It is the first systematic survey treatment of the area written by those individuals who are at the leading edge of the field. It fills a vacuum for a survey textbook treatment on the topic that can be used in variety of practical and academic settings in Information Systems, Computer Science, and Policy.
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