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  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
2,763 Views
14 Pages

The focus of this paper is to evaluate the benefits of a Japanese e-government project. In this research, the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) grid was used to measure the e-government benefits from the users’ perspective. A list of 27 governmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,768 Views
18 Pages

Open Government Data in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: An Analysis of Progress

  • Ibrahim Mutambik,
  • Abdullah Almuqrin,
  • John Lee,
  • Jeffrey Gauthier and
  • Abdullah Homadi

12 June 2022

Open government data (OGD) has been introduced relatively recently in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC Countries). However, progress has been significantly less than either hoped for or expected. The purpose of this research is to explore the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,466 Views
15 Pages

With the proliferation of technological tools and the advancement in electronic devices and accessories, consumers across the world are changing and upgrading their electronic devices at an alarming rate. However, these developments have raised conce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,958 Views
23 Pages

The adoption of e-government in public sector entities is essential due to the trend of digitizing government services. Thailand has implemented a variety of e-government policy frameworks with the goal of improving citizen public service delivery, p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
23,038 Views
28 Pages

5 June 2018

Electric government (e-government) projects in developing countries are facing many challenges to deliver sustainable e-government services. From the existing literature, we found that most of the studies considered lack of technology, and limitation...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,094 Views
26 Pages

9 November 2017

Despite significant efforts to initiate electronic government projects, developing countries are still struggling to reap the benefits of using e-government services. An effective implementation of e-government infrastructure is necessary to increase...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
15,565 Views
17 Pages

The Use of Blockchain Technology in e-Government Services

  • Ioannis Lykidis,
  • George Drosatos and
  • Konstantinos Rantos

10 December 2021

e-Government services have evolved significantly over the last decade, from a paper-based bureaucratic procedure to digital services. Electronically processed transactions require limited physical interaction with the public administration, and provi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,270 Views
21 Pages

A Review of Contemporary Governance Challenges in Oman: Can Blockchain Technology Be Part of Sustainable Solutions?

  • Leon Goldsmith,
  • Abdul Khalique Shaikh,
  • Hacer Yildiz Tan and
  • Kaamran Raahemifar

20 September 2022

Oman is considering adopting the latest e-governance technology, including Blockchain-based. While much research was conducted into the benefits and risks of Blockchain-based in information systems and finance fields, fewer researchers investigated t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,599 Views
24 Pages

27 August 2025

E-government represents a global initiative that leverages information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance public service delivery and strengthen interactions between governments and citizens. While adoption is critical to realizing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,034 Views
12 Pages

This paper studies associations between the use of formal decision-making processes in e-Government projects and the outcomes of these projects. By doing so, this study contributes to the decision sciences as well as to the fields of e-Government, in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
12,343 Views
21 Pages

Blockchain: Future of e-Governance in Smart Cities

  • Abhirup Khanna,
  • Anushree Sah,
  • Vadim Bolshev,
  • Michal Jasinski,
  • Alexander Vinogradov,
  • Zbigniew Leonowicz and
  • Marek Jasiński

26 October 2021

In recent times, Blockchain has emerged as a transformational technology with the ability to disrupt and evolve multiple domains. As a decentralized, immutable distributed ledger, Blockchain technology is one of the most recent entrants to the compre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
21,571 Views
22 Pages

Blockchain for Governments: The Case of the Dubai Government

  • Shafaq Khan,
  • Mohammed Shael,
  • Munir Majdalawieh,
  • Nishara Nizamuddin and
  • Mathew Nicho

27 May 2022

Blockchain technology is an innovative technology with the potential of transforming cities by augmenting the building of resilient societies and enabling the emergence of more transparent and accountable governments. To understand the capabilities o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,135 Views
17 Pages

13 September 2024

Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into e-government applications has the potential to improve public service delivery through advanced data processing and automation. This paper explores critical aspects of a modular and reproducible architect...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
694 Views
21 Pages

10 December 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into e-government promises to transform public service delivery, efficiency, and transparency. This study investigates the required critical implementation capacities in e-government/AI integration in d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
896 Views
30 Pages

22 November 2025

The digital economy plays a transformative role in enhancing energy efficiency and promoting sustainable development globally. As a key manifestation of digital governance, e-government has emerged as a vital instrument for accelerating the digital t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
958 Views
20 Pages

Involving citizens in public affairs through the use of participatory sensing applications is an emerging theme in Pervasive Computing and mobile E-Government (M-Government). Prior work, however, suggests that local governments place more emphasis on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,237 Views
18 Pages

24 March 2022

The purpose of this study is to advance the information society literature research by examining and developing the adoption of information systems within the Village Financial System (SISKEUDES) to improve the sustainable information society (SIS)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,535 Views
17 Pages

E-Government Development in European Countries: Socio-Economic and Environmental Aspects

  • Magdalena Zioło,
  • Piotr Niedzielski,
  • Ewa Kuzionko-Ochrymiuk,
  • Jacek Marcinkiewicz,
  • Katarzyna Łobacz,
  • Krzysztof Dyl and
  • Renata Szanter

24 November 2022

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the relationship between digitalisation of public services (e-government) and ESG factors (environmental, social and economic factors). As public administration is a major stakeholder influencing sustainable dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,118 Views
27 Pages

Pioneering Public Sector Innovation: The Case of Greece’s e-Government Team

  • Athanasios Pantazis Deligiannis and
  • Vassilios Peristeras

6 August 2025

This study offers the first systematic exploration of the Greek e-Government team, a public sector innovation unit that operated within the Office of the Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2012—the sole example of such a unit in the country....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,482 Views
23 Pages

5 January 2025

Citizens’ e-participation determines the successes and failures of digital government or e-government. However, its results to date have not been satisfactory. IT adoption models dominate previous studies. However, citizens’ psychological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,194 Views
25 Pages

Making Digital Government More Inclusive: An Integrated Perspective

  • Yaser Hasan Al-Mamary and
  • Mohammad Alshallaqi

5 October 2023

This study aims to identify the key factors that can contribute to making digital government more inclusive. This study developed a research model based on integrating the theory of e-government adoption and innovation resistance theory. The empirica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,730 Views
32 Pages

Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Review Across Six Pillars and Global Case Studies

  • Joel John,
  • Rayappa David Amar Raj,
  • Maryam Karimi,
  • Rouzbeh Nazari,
  • Rama Muni Reddy Yanamala and
  • Archana Pallakonda

Rapid urbanization in the twenty-first century has significantly accelerated the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to address growing challenges in governance, mobility, energy, and urban security. This paper explores how AI is tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,804 Views
18 Pages

This study explores graduate students’ perceptions of and experiences with digital governance in higher education, using data from semi-structured interviews with thirty participants. A qualitative research design guided the investigation, addr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
2,737 Views
19 Pages

RFID applicants called as e-ID, smart tag, and contactless smart card are being applied to numerous areas in our daily life, including tracking manufactured goods, currency, and patients to payments systems. To review these various applications of RF...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
20,883 Views
41 Pages

Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Democratic Processes and Citizen Participation

  • George Asimakopoulos,
  • Hera Antonopoulou,
  • Konstantinos Giotopoulos and
  • Constantinos Halkiopoulos

18 February 2025

Background: This systematic review will address the influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on democratic processes and citizens’ participation, which is enabled by such tools as social media, e-voting systems, e-governme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,560 Views
19 Pages

27 May 2025

Digital transformation in public service delivery holds the potential to foster sustainable urban governance by promoting transparency, inclusivity, and citizen engagement. However, unequal access to digital tools and competencies poses challenges to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,645 Views
18 Pages

25 October 2016

Enterprise architecture (EA) is one of the most important tools for implementing e-government effectively and delivering high-quality information technology services to citizens. To develop a robust EA research model with key success factors, we appl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,196 Views
23 Pages

An Empirical Analysis of E-Governments’ Cookie Interfaces in 50 Countries

  • Juna Alhumaidi Alharbi,
  • Abdulmohsen Saud Albesher and
  • Heider Ahmad Wahsheh

9 January 2023

Cookies have been used by websites to store information about user behavior. Although they provide several benefits, including improving user experience, they can threaten user privacy, particularly when websites use third-party cookies for data anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,640 Views
26 Pages

A Multimodal Framework Embedding Retrieval-Augmented Generation with MLLMs for Eurobarometer Data

  • George Papageorgiou,
  • Vangelis Sarlis,
  • Manolis Maragoudakis and
  • Christos Tjortjis

3 March 2025

This study introduces a multimodal framework integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to enhance the accessibility, interpretability, and analysis of Eurobarometer survey data. Traditional approac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,144 Views
20 Pages

Hadoop Oriented Smart Cities Architecture

  • Vlad Diaconita,
  • Ana-Ramona Bologa and
  • Razvan Bologa

12 April 2018

A smart city implies a consistent use of technology for the benefit of the community. As the city develops over time, components and subsystems such as smart grids, smart water management, smart traffic and transportation systems, smart waste managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,742 Views
23 Pages

26 March 2020

The characteristics of public-private partnerships (PPPs) determine that renegotiation is inevitable. Moreover, the strategic choice of the government and investors during renegotiation is critical for the project to continue. Previous studies sugges...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,232 Views
26 Pages

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the factors influencing the public’s attitude toward policy support and intention to pay for energy transition from nuclear to renewable energy. We focus on inconsistency issues between attitu...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
181 Citations
28,793 Views
8 Pages

Governance Strategies for a Sustainable Digital World

  • Igor Linkov,
  • Benjamin D. Trump,
  • Kelsey Poinsatte-Jones and
  • Marie-Valentine Florin

8 February 2018

Digitalization is changing society by the increased connectivity and networking that digital technologies enable, such as enhancing communication, services, and trade. Increasingly, policymakers within various national governments and international o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,327 Views
20 Pages

6 February 2024

The destiny of mankind is closely intertwined, and exploring new paths for the governance of the global commons of the earth’s surface (GCES) has become a worldwide topic. Thus, this paper attempts to carry out the following work by taking the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,930 Views
23 Pages

9 April 2020

Existing literature tends to treat enterprises as a whole when measuring government intervention. However, in Chinese region-specific institutional development, ultimate control (i.e., local government) tends to control multiple enterprises. This pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,068 Views
11 Pages

Improper use of pesticides among farmers has caused food safety issues which are serious threats to public health in China. A central question concerns how to motivate farmers to self-regulate their pesticide usage. The paper aims to identify the inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,859 Views
28 Pages

Nowadays, to achieve carbon neutrality, e-commerce platforms participate in the sales and recycling of electrical and electronic products in consideration of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations and environmental effects. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,783 Views
27 Pages

17 November 2021

In many countries, the governments support the development of local agriculture through subsidization. Subsidizing the sales of agricultural products through E-commerce channels is a way to support the development of agriculture in China. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
17,599 Views
24 Pages

The digitalization of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is important, considering the many associated benefits. Indonesia, through the government’s direction, has begun to develop digitalization through the introduction of e-payment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
28,728 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Governance and Fairness in the Milk Value Chain: A Case Study in Vietnam

  • Viet Hoang,
  • An Nguyen,
  • Carmen Hubbard and
  • Khanh-Duy Nguyen

15 September 2021

Governance and fairness in the food value chain have gained considerable attention from both policymakers and scholars, especially in developing countries. This study analysed the milk value chain, exploring its governance and fairness, and assessed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,856 Views
21 Pages

25 December 2022

E-commerce agriculture has gradually become an important force in poverty alleviation. Some large e-commerce enterprises in China, such as Alibaba and JD, have carried out poverty alleviation activities with the support of the government. With the en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,171 Views
22 Pages

28 September 2021

The 2030 Agenda with its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change were adopted in 2015. Although independently defined, the two agreements are strongly interlinked. We developed a framework that scores the impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,761 Views
19 Pages

31 July 2025

E-waste, a form of solid waste, contains many recyclable metals, but improper disposal can make it very harmful. Therefore, the recycling of e-waste is very important, and the willingness of residents to participate is crucial in e-waste recycling. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,067 Views
25 Pages

With the year-on-year growth of e-commerce transactions and the increasing popularity of the concept of ecological civilization, the waste and recycling of express packages have aroused widespread discussion and attention. On the issue of express pac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,779 Views
20 Pages

27 December 2020

There is little information concerning how people in the Global South perceive the benefits and costs associated with urban green areas. There is even less information on how governance influences the way people value these highly complex socio-ecolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,975 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2022

Rural e-commerce is a specific practice in the context of rural revitalization and common prosperity, but its short average life expectancy is also a serious practical problem. Therefore, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to condu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,382 Views
22 Pages

12 May 2023

As one of the specific practices of natural resource index trading, the forest ecological bank policy (FEB) is essentially a market-based tool. With the deepening of ecological governance, the FEB policy has also become the main method chosen to solv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,420 Views
32 Pages

22 August 2019

The remanufacturing industry plays a significant role to improve the utilization of resources and contribute to environmental protection and sustainable development. E-commerce channel (e-channel) has become an important retail channel. The multi-per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,986 Views
23 Pages

20 March 2022

Green innovation and technology diffusion must be financially and commercially attractive to convince corporate decision makers. This paper focuses on the factors that determine the financial outcome of successful green innovation activities conducte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,758 Views
15 Pages

Exploring the Transition from Petroleum to Natural Gas in Tanzania’s Road Transport Sector: A Perspective on Energy, Economy, and Environmental Assessment

  • Gerutu Bosinge Gerutu,
  • Esebi Alois Nyari,
  • Frank Lujaji,
  • Mathew Khilamile,
  • Kenedy Aliila Greyson,
  • Oscar Andrew Zongo and
  • Pius Victor Chombo

This study assesses the energy, economic, and environmental implications of switching Tanzania’s road transport sector to natural gas, which is slowly transitioning. In energy, the main goal is to identify the energy demand for petroleum fuel (...

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