The Springer UAIS Journal regrets to report that the Communication “Mobile phone and e-government: the future for dissemination of public services”, by Sami M. Alhomod and Mohd Mudasir Shafi, published online in September 2012, has been retracted from Springer Link. The Communication has been found to contain unquoted and unreferenced passages from the Chapter:

Hellström, Johan (2011). Mobile Governance: Applications, Challenges and Scaling-up, in Mobile Technologies for Conflict Management: Online Dispute Resolution, Governance, Participation. M. Poblet (ed) Springer. Pages 159–179. http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-94-007-1384-0_12.pdf

This is a serious violation of publication ethics which according to the Springer Policy on Publishing Integrity warrants a retraction notice. The Communication will not be published in print and should not be cited or referenced in the future.

The authors of the Communication admitted their mistake and apologized unreservedly to the author of the above mentioned Chapter, to Springer, and to the UAIS readership. The first author will be banned from publishing in the UAIS journal for one year and the second author for three years.