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iGovernment - Information Systems, Technology and Government: Working Papers

Series Editor: Dr Richard Heeks

Instructions

Working papers are available for download both in PDF format and as a zipped MS Word file.

Short papers are available in PDF format.

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Working Papers

Number	Title
21/2011	A Framework for Assessing Privacy Readiness of e-Government (Kristof Kessler, Nils Hettich, Chadley Parsons, Craig Richardson & Anny Triana).
20/2010	Analysing e-Government Project Failure: Comparing Factoral, Systems and Interpretive Approaches (Carolyne Stanforth).
19/2009	Understanding Adoption of e-Govrnment: Principals, Agents and Institutional Dualism (Richard Heeks & Rita Santos).
18/2006	Benchmarking eGovernment: Improving the National and International Measurement, Evaluation and Comparison of eGovernment (Richard Heeks).
17/2006	Analysing eGovernment Implementation in Developing Countries Using Actor-Network Theory (Carolyne Stanforth).
16/2006	Analysing eGovernment Research: Perspectives, Philosophies, Theories, Methods and Practice (Richard Heeks & Savita Bailur).
15/2004	eGovernment as a Carrier of Context (Richard Heeks).
14/2003	Most eGovernment-for-Development Projects Fail: How Can Risks be Reduced? (Richard Heeks).
13/2002	eGovernment in Africa: Promise and Practice (Richard Heeks).
12/2001	Building e-Governance for Development: A Framework for National and Donor Action (Richard Heeks).
11/2001	Understanding e-Governance for Development (Richard Heeks).
10/2000	Government Data: Understanding the Barriers to Citizen Access and Use (Richard Heeks).
9/1999	Why Health Care Information Systems Succeed or Fail (Richard Heeks, David Mundy & Angel Salazar).
8/1999	Information Management, IT and Government Transformation: Innovative Approaches in the new South Africa (Michael Kahn & Russell Swanborough).
7/1999	Centralised vs. Decentralised Management of Public Information Systems: A Core-Periphery Solution (Richard Heeks).
6/1998	Information Age Reform of the Public Sector: The Potential and Problems of IT for India (Richard Heeks).
5/1998	Public Sector Management Information Systems (Richard Heeks).
4/1998	Information Technology and Public Sector Corruption (Richard Heeks).
3/1998	Decision Support Systems and Strategic Public Sector Decision Making in Egypt (Sherif Kamel).
2/1998	Planning and Creating a Government Web Site: Learning from the Experience of US States (Linda DeConti).
1/1998	Information Systems and Public Sector Accountability (Richard Heeks).

Follow this link for the Educators' Guide for use with these working papers.

Short Papers

Please note: the links below lead directly to a PDF version of the papers.

Number	Title
8/2007 (27KB)	eGovernment Failure and Political Timescales (Richard Heeks).
7/2003 (47KB)	ICTs and Intra-Governmental Structures at Local, Regional and Central Levels: Updating Conventional Ideas (Rita Santos & Richard Heeks).
6/2001 (28KB)	Prototyping e-Government Applications (Richard Heeks).
5/2001 (48KB)	Community Informatics Strategies: A Summary of Issues and Resources (Richard Heeks).
4/1999 (58KB)	The Core-Periphery Approach to Management of Public Information Systems (Richard Heeks).
3/1999 (33KB)	High-Tension Wiring: Lessons from Local Government Internet Use in Sweden (Richard Heeks & Agneta Ranerup).
2/1999 (57KB)	Information Technology, Government and Development: Workshop Report (Richard Heeks)
1/1998 (38KB)	Public Sector Accountability: Can IT Deliver?(Richard Heeks).

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