E-Government Development and Diffusion: Inhibitors and Facilitators of Digital Democracy

E-government has become a global phenomenon through its use of Internet technologies as a platform for exchanging information, providing services, and transacting with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. E-Government Development and Diffusion: Inhibitors and Facilitators of Digital Democracy provides a comprehensive, integrative, and global assessment of the e-government evolution in terms of real-life success and failure cases. Containing research from leading international experts, this Premier Reference Source presents concepts from contemporary and diverse perspectives within the field.

Ganesh P. Sahu received his PhD in Management from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi, India). Currently he is an Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology (Allahabad, India). His research interests are in the areas of MIS and E-government. He has published several research papers in journals. He has coordinated several international conferences. He has also edited three books in the area of e-government. Dr. Sahu has acted as a reviewer for several international journals. He is also a guest editor with the International Journal of Electronic Governance. Dr. Sahu has been on the jury for the CSI-Nihilent E-governance National Awards, India.

Yogesh K. Dwivedi is a lecturer at the School of Business and Economics at Swansea University in the UK. He was awarded his MSc and PhD by Brunel University in the UK, receiving a Highly Commended award for his doctoral work by the European Foundation for Management and Development. His research focuses on the adoption and diffusion of ICT in organisations and in addition to authoring a book and numerous conference papers, has co-authored papers accepted for publication by journals such as Communications of the ACM, the Information Systems Journal, the European Journal of Information Systems, and the Journal of the Operational Research Society. He is Senior Editor of DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Managing Editor of Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Assistant Editor of Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy and a member of the editorial board/review board of a number of other of other journals, and is a member of the Association of Information Systems, IFIP WG8.6 and the Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, New Delhi.

Vishanth Weerakkody is a member of faculty in the Business School at Brunel University (UK). VW was previously a faculty member in the department of IS and Computing at Brunel University and he has held various IT positions in multinational organizations, including IBM UK. VW is a member of the British Computer Society, Chartered IT professional and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is the current editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research.