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This paper investigates the maturity of Egyptian local e-government websites. The paper develops a model that fits a developing country context and is based on Quirk’s Maturity Model and the Municipal e-Government Assessment Project (MeGAP) Model. The model is used to carry out a detailed content analysis of 22 governorates’ web sites in Egypt. The results show a significant variability in websites’ maturity in various spaces of the model. Information features have proved to be dominating, while features related to e-service and e-commerce are the least available on the local government websites.
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Abdelsalam, H., ElKadi, H., Gamal, S. (2011). Egypt Local Government Websites Maturity: Current Status. In: Popescu-Zeletin, R., Rai, I.A., Jonas, K., Villafiorita, A. (eds) E-Infrastuctures and E-Services for Developing Countries. AFRICOMM 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23828-4_10
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