E-Government implementation frameworks: Suitability and Applicability

E-Government has been established as a key enabler of efficient online service provision to citizens and effective mechanism of increasing the productivity of many governments world over. It seems that governments world-wide are attempting to bring changes in the ways in which they offer their services. Governments are trying to use Information Communications and Technologies (ICTs) to achieve a better interaction between and among their local government and central agencies in providing new, efficient and convenient ways with their citizens and businesses in the acquisition of services. However, there are organisational, technological, political and social factors which surround the implementation of E-Government which needs to be taken into consideration and handled in a proper way in order to smoothly facilitate the implementation. Governments around the world have undertaken several initiatives in order to provide online services and information around the clock. They have designed and formulated E-Government implementation strategies, road maps and visions to do this, but the question is: are all this guided by any framework(s) or they are just writings on papers with ideas composed and put together guided by nothing? Hence, the purpose of this paper is to highlight and discuss some of the frameworks which could be useful, suitable and applicable in the implementation of E-Government. This paper which is based on document analysis will further highlight how the said frameworks are suitable and applicable to the E-Government implementation. This paper could be useful to those who are interested in learning about egovment implementation. It can also be a guide to policy makers and formulators of E-Government endeavour world-wide.