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Abstract. Literature has emphasized on human computer interaction as the backbone of technology use and acceptance. The authors made use of the tasktechnology fit theory and argue that any pre-occupation with the theory from the perspective of task and technology characteristics that does not embrace the user technology self-efficacy is unrealistic and unauthentic. Contributing to debates on task technology fit theory; this study provides self-efficacy as an antecedent for mobile phone voting task technology fit. The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the possibility of extending the task technology fit theory by cooperating self-efficacy to the task and technology characteristics within the voting context. The participants voted for their representatives using a mobile phone voting application. Data was collected using a selfcompletion questionnaire and the partial least squares was employed. The proposed model displayed a good fit with the data and rendered satisfactory explanatory power for mobile phone voting.

Mobile government is gaining significant attention worldwide. Mobile phone penetration offers government a number of several opportunities, including offering governments services to citizens through ambiguous devices. This phenomenon called m-Government is a strategy which implicates the use of all kinds of wireless and mobile technologies, applications and devices for improving service delivery to the parties involved in m-Government including citizens, businesses, employees and all government divisions. The study is based in South Africa, in preparation to be among the leading mgovernment intiative on the continent. The main aim of the study is to develop a mobile Government Maturity Model that can be used as an assessment tool to evaluate mobile services offered by government departments. This study examined the benefits offered by mobile government and also conducted an in-depth literature review on mobile government maturity models. Identified maturity models that have been developed by other researchers were translated, interpreted, compared and synthesized and a new mobile government maturity model is proposed. The new maturity model is contextualized for the Free State government in South Africa.

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