RE: [tgf] FYI Research (FW: [egov4dev] Analysing e-GovernmentFailure: New Online Paper Compares Different Approaches)

John, Colin

 

I 
guess I sit somewhere between the two of you.  I think the subject area - 
which are the factors that often lead e-government programmes or projects 
to fail? - is extremly relevant to the TGF.  However, I didn't think the 
paper itself added much to the debate.  It does a reasonable job of 
summarising the research and literature in this area, but then most of the focus 
is on categorising these into a taxonomy of different research approaches.  
I think our approach in the TGF needs to be much less academic and more 
practitioner-focused - setting out a pragmatic set of principles and checklist 
of critical success factors which governments can use in order to "build in 
success".

 

Our own initial stab at this is set out in the Critical 
Success Factor checklist in the CS Transform white paper that we have 
thrown into the TGF mix.  That checklist draws on a lot of the research 
surveyed in the Manchester paper, but tries to draw it together into an 
actionable framework.  

 

Chris 
Parker

Managing 
Partner, CS Transform Ltd, 
+44 
7951 754 060

 

From: John Borras 
[mailto:] 
Sent: 15 November 2010 
08:55
To: 'Colin Wallis'
Cc: 

Subject: RE: [tgf] FYI Research (FW: 
[egov4dev] Analysing e-Government Failure: New Online Paper Compares Different 
Approaches)

Colin

 

I 
don’t think there’s anything in this for the TGF TC.   It’s probably a 
very good paper for its purpose but doesn’t contribute anything for our proposed 
TG Framework IMO.

 

John

 

From: Colin Wallis 
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Sent: 14 November 2010 
22:57
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Subject: [tgf] FYI Research (FW: 
[egov4dev] Analysing e-Government Failure: New Online Paper Compares Different 
Approaches)

 

Greetings 
all

 

This from 
a Yahoo Group list I subscribe to.

 

Richard 
Heeks is a regular, if not frequent, contributor there.

 

This Yahoo 
group list is fairly quiet but I find useful as it comprises a number of Asia 
Pacific located folks (e.g. Sri Lanka), that are not members of eGov OASIS. 

 

I haven't 
read this in detail but on a quick skim I saw some things that would resonate 
with this group.  

 

Cheers

Colin

 

From: Colin Wallis 
[mailto:] 
Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 
11:04 a.m.
To: Colin Wallis
Subject: FW: [egov4dev] 
Analysing e-Government Failure: New Online Paper Compares Different 
Approaches

 

To: 

From: 
Date: Fri, 
12 Nov 2010 23:54:44 +0000
Subject: [egov4dev] Analysing e-Government 
Failure: New Online Paper Compares Different Approaches

  

A new 
paper in the i-Government Working Paper series is available at: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/wp/igovernment/index.htm

It 
compares factoral, systems and interpretive approaches to the analysis of 
e-government project failure. It identifies the different conceptual, 
methodological and epistemological foundations of each approach, and illustrates 
approach selection adopted in one research case study.

The paper has a 
linked educators' guide to facilitate its use for postgraduate and researcher 
training.

Richard Heeks
Director, Centre for Development 
Informatics
University of Manchester, UK
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi 

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