Cases on Adoption, Diffusion and Evaluation of Global E-Governance Systems: Impact at the Grass Roots

Many of today’s e-government systems are designed to replicate conventional systems. Electronic solutions are implemented in government offices without investigating transformational aspects and, as a result, these systems are unable to provide long-term sustainability.

Cases on Adoption, Diffusion and Evaluation of Global E-Governance Systems: Impact at the Grass Roots accommodates theories, issues and methodologies for designing, implementing and operating e-government systems. The cases contained in this text cover a variety of services and applications that have been improving the governance of nations and economies. Focusing on pragmatic implementations and emphasizing e-government systems targeted to grass roots e-governance, this work assists readers in understanding basic aspects of e-government systems as well as their successful design and implementation.

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• Adoption of free and open source software
• Citizen-centric dimensions of rural e-governance systems
• Community knowledge records
• E-governance concerns
• E-government policy
• Fiscal transparency
• ICT governance
• Improve e-governance at the grass roots
• Initiatives for grass roots communities
• Networking in e-democracy