E-government adoption rates in emerging economies remain persistently low despite substantial infrastructure investments. Understanding adoption drivers requires synthesizing fragmented empirical evidence on technology acceptance and service quality factors across diverse contexts. Purpose: This...

Technological advances are increasingly influencing how the public sector makes decisions according to citizens' needs and the community's problems. The need for a solution that facilitates the fast adaptation of administration to social context and people's feedback becomes mandatory in order...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced European Union member states to accelerate the digitalization of public services, turning a gradual policy priority into an urgent necessity. This study examines the pandemic's impact on the digital transformation of public administrations, assessing the...

Administrative digital accessibility drives rural development, particularly in peri-urban areas where traditional governance meets the growing demands for digital services. The study examines the role of digital tools in local administrations in supporting citizen engagement and responsiveness...

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 developing countries. Although there is a...

This study investigates the factors in acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI)- based chatbot application in Sri Lanka's government administration services, which can be applied to developing countries, using an extended technology acceptance model (extended TAM) as a new research framework...

This study investigates how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles can be effectively integrated into the Balanced Scorecard (BSc) framework within local government organizations (LGOs) to enhance strategic planning and sustainability performance. Addressing a gap in the...

This study aims to identify factors influencing the prioritization of rival public values, with Brazilian state governments as locus. The paper also proposes a conceptual model comprising the intervening factors and their relationships with the public and the value positions.This exploratory...

The following research will be based on assessing the success of e-government projects in Egypt, the issues that influence the implementation process of governmental capacity to provide citizens with governmental services. The study examines the direct relationship between e-government...

This study presents a comprehensive bibliographic and semantic analysis of 3957 scientific publications on artificial intelligence (AI) in government and public administration. Using an integrated text- and network-based approach, we identify the main thematic areas and conceptual orientations...

Despite global advances, the digital transformation of public services in developing countries often fails to meet its objectives. This study argues that a primary reason for this is an overemphasis on technological solutions and a neglect of the broader institutional context. Through a...

Smart government uses smartphones to provide services to beneficiaries. Organizations face huge obstacles in their attempts to create an efficient methodology for smart government transformation because of the need for successful strategies. Enterprise resource planning and cloud computing are...

This study examines how technological innovation and sustainability jointly reshape contemporary public administration by integrating digital transformation with public value creation. Using a mixed-method approach, we compile a Scopus-based bibliographic dataset and conduct descriptive and...

Public-sector innovation is frequently portrayed as the domain of dedicated innovation labs and experimental units, obscuring how innovation capacity can emerge within core bureaucratic institutions. This article explores how Norway's Brønnøysund Register Centre (BRC), mainly a registry...

Fiscal transparency is a core pillar of open government, yet its implementation at the local level remains uneven. This study investigates how the Open Government Partnership (OGP) contributes to fiscal transparency as a form of public sector innovation through a comparative analysis of local...

There is an increasing emphasis on utilizing ICT to drive global governmental transformation to enhance efficiency and cost-effective service delivery. Smart governance represents a novel and data-driven progressive approach, prioritizing intelligence in operations, upholding an exceptional...

Digital transformation has become a topic of interest since public institutions digitalize their processes to improve efficiency, while citizens wish to solve their issues through online platforms. Even if this topic is a priority, the Digital Economy and Society Index reveals that digital...

Chap 1:Why to read this book -- Chap 2:The rise of the Smart City -- Chap 3:The Smart City in Practice -- Chap 4:The smart city market -- Chap 5:Governing a Smart City -- Chap 6:Smart Government:a new adjective to government transformation or a trick?.

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has emerged as a foundational enabler of modern digital governance, yet scholarly understanding of its scope, design, and impact remains fragmented. This study addresses this gap by conducting a comprehensive systematic review and bibliometric analysis of 1153...

Digital transformation has become a central strategy for modernizing the public sector. This study analyzes the relationships between digital competencies, digital literacy, change management, soft skills, technology adoption, digitization of the public function, digital public services,...

This study examines the mechanisms shaping citizen satisfaction in the context of digital government, taking Guangdong Province's highly centralized "Yue Sheng Shi" platform as a case study. Building on the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) framework, a structural model was tested with...

Background: Digital transformation is reshaping public organizations worldwide, yet in low-resource contexts, its success is constrained by weak infrastructure and governance. In India, programs such as the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission and the Aspirational Districts Programme rely on...

Digital transformation in government services represents a strategic shift that leverages digital technologies to enhance efficiency, accessibility, convenience, and user-centricity. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments accelerated the digitisation of services to support remote...

This study examines the critical success factors for digital transformation in South Africa's public services, where systemic inefficiency, corruption, and limited transparency have eroded public trust. Using a PRISMA-guided systematic literature review of 64 studies, this study synthesises...

Different Digital Governance maturity models are established; however, limited research has examined their applicability at the local government level, particularly concerning the interrelations among dimensions such as Strategy, Employees, and Processes. Understanding these connections is vital...

Despite the increasing integration of government chatbots (GCs) into digital public service delivery, their real-world effectiveness remains limited. Drawing on the literature on algorithm aversion, trust-transfer theory, and perceived risk theory, this study investigates how the type of service...

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. It illustrates how strategically positioned...

In a European context, facing pressure to digitalize public administration, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) at the local level remains a deeply uneven and empirically poorly understood process. This study investigates the degree of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in...

As governments across the world increasingly undergo digitalisation processes, ensuring cybersecurity of these provisions cannot be 100% guaranteed. How, then, can governments best respond to a cybersecurity crisis in order to bolster cybersecurity in the future? Even Estonia, one of the...

This report supports the implementation of Interoperability Assessments (IOPAs), as introduced by the Interoperable Europe Act, which requires public administrations to assess the impact of newly introduced or substantially modified binding requirements on cross-border interoperability of...