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This paper presents the findings of an exploratory research project into future e-Government (electronic Government) initiatives. The Virtual Institute for Electronic Government Research (VIEGO) project aimed at identifying and further developing the research agenda of e-Government based on a solid practical ground. As such, the paper offers a novel methodology in identifying the road map for future e-Government initiatives based on a series of workshops organised around the U.K. hosting a mixture of stakeholders involving both academics and practitioners. The analysis of the VIEGO workshops depicted that an e-Government research agenda involves a combination of social, technological and organisational issues at both governmental and individual citizen level, ultimately driven by empirical case-based experience and active participation in e-Government processes. Unlike other propositions for the future of e-Government offered in the e-Government literature, it raised research questions not only originated from an analysis of e-Government literature but also on the outcome of brainstorming, reflections and contemplations throughout the duration of the project.
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The authors wish to express their thanks to the U.K.'s Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for providing financial support for the research (grant EP/D043840/1) and to Paul Jackson of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)'s Improvement Through Technology Network for hosting the London meetings and chairing all five of the workshops. Finally, they wish to thank Omiros D. Sarikas, Vasiliki Mantzana and Prodromos Tsiavos for their work in painstakingly recording and analysing the workshop sessions.
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Irani, Z., Elliman, T. & Jackson, P. Electronic transformation of government in the U.K.: a research agenda. Eur J Inf Syst 16, 327–335 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000698
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