Most eGovernment-for-Development Projects Fail: How Can Risks be Reduced?

By Richard Heeks. 2003

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Subfields: Media Technology, Political Science and International Relations

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The Failure of E‐Government in Developing Countries: A Literature Review (2006, methodology): “By examining numerous cases of IS and e-government failure in developing countries, Heeks (2002; 2003) states that a The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries http://www.ejisdc.org major reason for these failures is the mismatch between the current reality and the design…”
Impact and Sustainability of E-Government Services in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned from Tamil Nadu, India (2006, neutral): “He offers a taxonomy of such failures as: (cid:1) Success (Heeks, 2003b) We now describe a simple Sustainability Failure Model as having ﬁve principal modes: (cid:1) Financial/economic sustainability failure.”
The public value of E-Government - A literature review (2019, background): “A high failure rate of e-government in the LDCs has been identified with estimations that 35% of projects are total failures, 50% are partial failures, and that only 15% are successful (Heeks, 2003).”
The imperative of influencing citizen attitude toward e-government adoption and use (2015, methodology): “According to Heeks (2003), the major reason behind e-government initiatives failure in developing countries is the gap experienced between the design and reality of e-government systems implementation.”
The human infrastructure of ICTD (2010, background): “In turn, the ‘design-reality gap’—the gap between current realities and design conceptions of the information system—may be narrowed [5].”
Towards excellence in e‐governance (2005, neutral): “These risks can be significant (Heeks, 2003).”