KOFI ANOKYE OWUSU-DARKO (BLOG 1)

INTRODUCTION E-government may mean different things to different countries depending on their level of economic development and therefore different lenses being used in assessing the effective and efficient use of ICT in delivering government business. A country that has an already developed ICT infrastructure and computerised government back office processes will have a different view about e-government that may be more service delivery bias to a country running a manual government back office which will be more oriented towards automation of the back office processes. The definitions of e-government can therefore be said to be within a continuum of automation of government internal business to an external interaction with its citizens. This has broadly been re-categorised by Timothy Waema Professor, School of Computing and Informatics, University of   Nairobi, Kenya) into e-administration, e-services and e-society and in practice it may be possible for different government bodies to

INTRODUCTION E-government may mean different things to different countries depending on their level of economic development and therefore different lenses being used in assessing the effective and efficient use of ICT in delivering government business. A country that has an already developed ICT infrastructure and computerised government back office processes will have a different view about e-government that may be more service delivery bias to a country running a manual government back office which will be more oriented towards automation of the back office processes. The definitions of e-government can therefore be said to be within a continuum of automation of government internal business to an external interaction with its citizens. This has broadly been re-categorised by Timothy Waema Professor, School of Computing and Informatics, University of   Nairobi, Kenya) into e-administration, e-services and e-society and in practice it may be possible for different government bodies to