A Decade of e-Government Research in Africa

Abstract

The state of research on e-government evolution in Africa is ripe for analysis. The article analyses e-government research and scholarly publishing through an assessment of the key features of the research and the community spearheading its emergence. This exploratory study seeks to map the terrain of e-government research in Africa at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. For this purpose, 50 articles were identified using the Scopus citation database, and were subjected to content analysis. This work is intended to encourage continental e-government researchers to further explore and analyse the e-government phenomenon from varying starting points, perspectives, disciplinary orientations and research traditions, and to pave the way for a greater understanding of the dynamics, nature and key features of e-government on the continent.

A meso-level exploration of citizen’s mGov adoption from SD logic perspective: the case of COVID-19 tracking app of India

“…To the best of our knowledge, no study has explored mGov at meso-level. While macro-level analysis sheds light on the structures and patterns of change in society, and microlevel unravels the interaction of individuals, their relationships and factors influencing their behavior (Burke, 2012), meso-level deals with describing the role of organizational and institutional structure within society. Meso-level better captures within-country variations and offers “an ideal mix of specificity and generality” by taking care of shortcomings of both micro- and macro-levels analyses (Georgiadou et al , 2018).…”