9. eGovernment
• Electronic Government (eGovernment) originates in e-business and
eCommerce in the private sector (Moon, 2002). eGovernment is the
use of information communication technologies (ICT) to provide
businesses and citizens with services and opportunity to interact with
the Government through electronic media such as internet, email,
fax and Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) (Almarabeh & AbuAli, 2010).
• eGovernment resources are available through internet and provides
information from the agencies to the citizens. This information is e.g.
healthcare, registration, education, taxation and social services
(Becker, 2005). A part of eGovernment is eServices. eServices can be
defined as a provision of service over electronic networks, e.g. the
internet (Rust & Kannan, 2002).