Digital government evolution: From transformation to contextualization

Tomasz Janowski

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2015.07.001

Digital government evolution: From transformation to contextualization

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The Digital Government landscape is continuously changing to reflect how governments are trying to find innovative digital solutions to social, economic, political and other pressures, and how they transform themselves in the process. Understanding and predicting such changes is important for policymakers, government executives, researchers and all those who prepare, make, implement or evaluate Digital Government decisions. This article argues that the concept of Digital Government evolves toward more complexity and greater contextualization and specialization, similar to evolution-like processes that lead to changes in cultures and societies. To this end, the article presents a four-stage Digital Government Evolution Model comprising Digitization (Technology in Government), Transformation (Electronic Government), Engagement (Electronic Governance) and Contextualization (Policy-Driven Electronic Governance) stages; provides some evidence in support of this model drawing upon the study of the Digital Government literature published in Government Information Quarterly between 1992 and 2014; and presents a Digital Government Stage Analysis Framework to explain the evolution. As the article consolidates a representative body of the Digital Government literature, it could be also used for defining and integrating future research in the area.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:: GOVERNMENT INFORMATION QUARTERLY no. 32, pages 221 - 236,
ISSN: 0740-624X
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2015
Bibliographic description:: Janowski T.: Digital government evolution: From transformation to contextualization// GOVERNMENT INFORMATION QUARTERLY -Vol. 32,iss. 3 (2015), s.221-236
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.giq.2015.07.001
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