Cultivating trust – an electronic-government development model for addressing the needs of developing countries. (27th October 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mousavi, Seyed Amin; Pimenidis, Elias; Jahankhani, Hamid
• Is Part Of: International journal of electronic security and digital forensics. Volume 1:Number 3(2008)
• Page Start: 233
• Page End: 248
• Publication Date: 2008-10-27
• Subjects: e-government -- developing countries -- privacy -- trust -- electronic government -- cyber security -- digital divide -- information security -- electronic security; Computer crimes -- Periodicals; Computer crimes -- Investigation -- Periodicals; Computer security -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Law and legislation -- Periodicals; Information warfare -- Periodicals; 005.805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-911X

Abstract

Evaluating existing initiatives for developing electronic government (e-government) in addition to identifying main challenges can provide valuable learning points in contributing towards efficient and effective implementation of e-government projects. The digital divide, issues of cyber security, privacy and primarily trust have been identified as the main challenges for implementing e-government in developing countries. This paper presents a proposed multi-stage model for implementing e-government in developing countries and identifies different dimensions of the challenges which surface in early stages. The issue of building trust while defying the obstacle of the digital divide through the proposed staged implementation is addressed in detail.