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Dimensions for Scoping e-Government Enterprise Architecture Development Efforts

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences (OTM 2018)

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Inspired by developed economies, many developing economies are adopting an enterprise architecture approach to e-government implementation in order to overcome challenges of e-government interoperability. However, when developing an enterprise architecture for a complex enterprise such as the e-government enterprise, there is need to rationally specify scope dimensions. Addressing this requires guidance from e-government maturity models that provide insights into phasing e-government implementations; and enterprise architecture approaches that provide general insight into key dimensions for scoping enterprise architecture efforts. Although such insights exist, there is hardly detailed guidance on scoping initiatives associated with developing an e-government enterprise architecture. Yet the success of such business-IT alignment initiatives is often affected by scope issues. Thus, this paper presents an intertwined procedure that draws insights from e-government maturity models and enterprise architecture frameworks to specify critical aspects in scoping e-government enterprise architecture development efforts. The procedure was validated using a field demo conducted in a Uganda public entity.

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Authors appreciate the Systems manager at KCCA for participating in the field demo and anonymous reviewers of this paper.

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  1. Makerere University, P. O. BOX 7062, Kampala, Uganda

    Agnes Nakakawa & Flavia Namagembe

  2. Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 1855, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

    Erik H. A. Proper

  3. Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. BOX 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Erik H. A. Proper

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  1. CNRS, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  2. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Christophe Debruyne

  3. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Henderik A. Proper

  4. Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy

    Claudio Agostino Ardagna

  5. SINTEF and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Dumitru Roman

  6. TU Graz, Graz, Austria

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Appendix 1. Template for the Scope Specification Matrix of SGEA

Appendix 1. Template for the Scope Specification Matrix of SGEA

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Scope dimensions of the GE architecture

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Nakakawa, A., Namagembe, F., Proper, E.H.A. (2018). Dimensions for Scoping e-Government Enterprise Architecture Development Efforts. In: Panetto, H., Debruyne, C., Proper, H., Ardagna, C., Roman, D., Meersman, R. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences. OTM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11229. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02610-3_37

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