An Interoperability Framework For E Government Heterogeneous Information Systems

An Interoperability Framework for E-Government Heterogeneous Information Systems

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 80.00, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, language: English, abstract: The main objective of the study was to develop an interoperability framework that defines and guides the establishment of interoperable e-government information systems within different levels of government. Information Communication and Technology (ICT) utilization has become a backbone of e-government implementation. Six components of information system (hardware, software, people, data, process and network) are combined to deliver information from government to their citizen as part of public services. However, there is an interoperability challenge on e-government implementation related to information system. These systems due to different vendors and their use of different storage types, data formats, languages and middleware platform have become diverse, hence the challenge of interoperability due to heterogeneity of e-government information systems. The study adopted a mixed methods approach where both quantitative and qualitative data was used. The instruments used for data collection included content analysis, interviews and questionnaires. The study used simple random sampling to distribute the questionnaires and purposive sampling technique for the interview schedules. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptively statistics including mean, mode and standard deviation. Qualitative data was analyzed using thematic analysis. Pearson’s correlation was used to find out the relationship between two variables while controlling the effects of one or more additional variables. ANOVA was used to determine whether the model was important in predicting the interoperability of e-government heterogeneous information systems in Kenya. Expert opinion survey was used to validate the proposed interoperability framework.

ECEG2013- 13th European Conference on eGovernment

These proceedings represent the work of authors at the 13th European Conference on e-Government (ECEG 2013). The Conference this year is hosted by the Iuniversity of Insubria in Como, Italy. The Conference Chair is Professor Walter Castelnovo and the Programme Chair is Professor Elena Ferrari, both are fro the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences at the University of Insubria. The opening keynote address is given by Dr Gianluca Misuraca from the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain and Gianluca is addressing the topic "eGovernment: Past, Present & Future: A policy-research perspective for renewing governance in the digital age". The second day of the conference is opened by Dr Antoinio Cordella from the London School of Economics, London, UK, who will talk about "Public value creation: the new challenge for e-government policies". ECEG brings together, researchers, Government officials and practitioners in the area of e-Government from around the world. Participants are able to share their research findings and explore the latest developments and trends in the field which can then be disseminated to the wider community. With an initial submission of 153 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are papers published in these Conference Proceedings from 40 countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Eygpt, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UK and USA. This will ensure a very interesting two days.

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