Affiliations: [a] Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland | [b] Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland | School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands | Department of Statistics, Trinity College, Ireland | Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Frank Bannister, School of Computer
Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Tel.: +353 1 896
2186; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: While the development of e-government since the early 1990s has been
characterized by many successful applications and systems, it has also been
notable for a number of failures to fully realise visions and for several
stalled ideas. Governments, professionals and indeed scholars have a tendency
to embrace the latest technological developments before older ones have been
fully exploited or in some cases even fully understood and this can leave a
trail of uncompleted projects in its wake. The future success of e-government
depends in part on understanding this phenomenon, addressing it and developing
the ability to discern when a technology or concept is no longer of value and
therefore should be abandoned and when a task needs to be finished properly, no
matter how unglamorous that task may be.
