This comprehensive review of e-government in Turkey identifies strategic opportunities and major challenges relative to its e-government efforts.

The report gives a broad description of the shift in governments' focus on e-government development – from a government-centric to a user-centric approach. It gives a comprehensive overview of challenges to user take-up of e-government services in OECD countries and ways of improving them.

This report shows that the development and provision of the next generation of user-focused services in the Belgian government will require the maximisation of synergies between the federal, regional and community governments and local authorities.

This comprehensive review of e-government in the Netherlands examines such questions as whether the goal of reducing administrative burdens is sufficient in itself for e-government to transform public administrations. Further, how can the public sector build partnerships across levels of government?

This comprehensive review of e-government in Hungary draws important lessons from the Hungarian experience and identifies the challenges Hungary faces in using e-government to improve government.

This report analyses e-government implementation in Egypt and presents a series of recommendations for action.

This review is the first to analyse e-government at the country level using a revised framework designed to capture the new challenges faced by countries today. It highlights the richness of initiatives and actions taken by Denmark in relation to a number of areas.

Analyses administrative simplification and e-government in Portugal, showing how e-government can be used as a lever for broader administrative simplification by making service delivery more coherent and efficient.

Examines broadband developments and policies, and highlights challenges such as connecting users to fibre-based networks or coverage of rural areas.

Comparative E-Government examines the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on governments throughout the world. It focuses on the adoption of e-government both by comparing different countries, and by focusing on individual countries and the success and challenges that they have faced. With 32 chapters from leading e-government scholars and practitioners from around the world, there is representation of developing and developed countries and their different stages of e-government adoption. Part I compares the adoption of e-government in two or more countries. The purpose of these chapters is to discern the development of e-government by comparing different counties and their individual experiences. Part II provides a more in-depth focus on case studies of e-government adoption in select countries. Part III, the last part of the book, examines emerging innovations and technologies in the adoption of e-government in different countries. Some of the emerging technologies are the new social media movement, the development of e-participation, interoperability, and geographic information systems (GIS).