International Experience in e-Transformation
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International Experience in e-Transformation Nagy K. Hanna
Received: 8 September 2010 / Accepted: 14 September 2010 / Published online: 8 October 2010 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
All countries are learning to smartly leverage the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution to enhance their competitive position, to improve governance and public services, and to build an inclusive information society. There is much to be learned, in view of the fast pace of technological change, the recent emergence of the digital economy, the uncertain payoff and publicized failures of ICT investments, the malleable nature of ICT as a general purpose technology, and the need for complementary policies and investments to realize the potential benefits of what we call e-development or e-Transformation. The literature on country experience in developing and implementing ICT strategies is scarce. With few exceptions, that literature is theoretical or prescriptive. Analytical and descriptive literature typically depends on official statements of national ICT polices and strategies, with scant attention to implementation experience, evaluation, and lessons learned. Even scarcer is the literature on cross-country or comparative experience in pursuing e-transformation and implementation challenges. The authors of this special issue draw on the in-depth observation as actors or participant-observers of the country they are reporting on. Their perspective emphasizes the process of formulating and implementing e-strategies and the underlying forces and dynamics that shape both design and implementation. Moreover, all cases follow a common conceptual framework, to facilitate cross-country comparisons of e-strategy design and implementation, without reducing country experiences into some aggregate measures of readiness or indicators of outcomes. This set of articles follow the framework of e-development or e-transformation as an integrated approach to leveraging ICT for development—pursuing coherent policies and mutually reinforcing ICT-enabled development initiatives at the national and regional levels.1 E-development can also be accelerated by identifying and influencing key stakeholders to help create an “ecosystem” for the information society and knowledge economy—a holistic approach that generates a shared vision, mobilizes 1
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N. K. Hanna (*) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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stakeholders, and both maps the connections and shapes the relationships among diverse players. I hope the case studies will encourage others to contribute to the comparative study of countries at different stages of e-transformation and to draw lessons of experience. Guest editor Nagy K. Hanna Reference 1. Hanna NK (2009) e-Transformation: enabling new development strategies. Springer, New York
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