Editorial

摘要

In this opening issue of Vol. 7 of the International Journal of Electronic Governance, we are glad to present our readership with a collection of research papers covering a broad spectrum of subjects, including success factors for e-government implementation, mobile government strategies, e-parliament services, anti-corruption and transparency, ethnic digital divides, technology adoption as well as lightweight implementations of local government services. In the first paper of the issue, appropriate strategies and factors for e-government implementations, with a focus on mobile government are discussed. In Implementing Mobile Government in Jordan: Strategies for Success, Al-Masaeed and Love discuss m-government as a delivery channel for governments to provide timely information and services ubiquitously to residents, businesses and other government departments. The authors focus on the case of Jordan, a country belonging to the early adopters of m-government that has launched an e-government mobile portal in 2011, and apply a two-phased mixed methods study based on focus groups and survey research to identify the elements of a potential roadmap for implementing mobile government with success and user acceptance.