The African Journal of Information Systems

E-Government, introduced in African countries under the banner of New Public Management (NPM), is envisaged to fundamentally aid in improving governance in developing countries. The imported model of E-Government is therefore transferred to African countries as a panacea to bad governance by carriers such as international donor agencies, consultants, Information Technology vendors and Western-trained civil servants. Improved governance is expected to impact on the socio-economic development of these countries implementing E-Government, as an NPM instrument. This article recognizes that E-Government success, which is critically dependent on the World Wide Web, requires socially inclusive national information infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical analysis into the emerging E-Government artifact in the context of a developing country. By combining three independent research streams related to governance, social exclusion, and national information infrastructure, the emerging E-Government artifact was explored from a supply-side perspective.

 

Full Text:  Emergence of the E-Government Artifact in Kenya (235.01 kB)

 

Keywords: E-Government Artifact, E-Government, governance, Africa, Kenya

 

Cite As: Ochara, N. (2008) Emergence of the E-Government Artifact in an Environment of Social Exclusion in Kenya, The African Journal of Information Systems, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 18-43.