Abstract
Digital transformation is crucial for governments to provide better and more efficient services to the citizens. A legal framework is a necessary component of each e-government ecosystem to ensure proper delivery of e-services. This research proposes a legal framework for e-government in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The research started with the KRI’s e-Court system project as the first pilot project towards the systematic introduction of e-government in general. The research is based on a qualitative comparative case study of the KRI and Estonia, which is known to have a particularly mature set of e-government regulations. Data have been collected from legal databases, existing literature, and other available legal documentations from both countries. This study aims to provide a foundation for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to conclude plans for digital expansion and implementation of e-government in the KRI. Beyond that, the authors hope that this study extends the existing body of knowledge and literature in a way that is useful for e-government practitioners in other projects and researchers alike.
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EU Parliament and Council regulation (EU) no 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC.
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EU Parliament and Council regulation (EU) no 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
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Special thanks to Safeen Ghafour, Senior Reform Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of the KRG, for supporting this research by providing updated data and documentation on e-government initiatives in the KRI. We are also grateful to Aleksander Reitsakas for his steady support of this research. Additionally, we are thankful to Hiwa Afandi, the head of KRG Department of Information Technology for his valuable comments and support of this research.
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Ahmed, R.K. et al. (2021). A Legal Framework for Digital Transformation: A Proposal Based on a Comparative Case Study. In: Kö, A., Francesconi, E., Kotsis, G., Tjoa, A.M., Khalil, I. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12926. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86611-2_9
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