Success and Failure in eGovernment Projects

Techniques

Avoiding eGov Failure: Factor-Specific Techniques

"How can I make my e-government project more likely to succeed and/or less likely to fail?"

This page offers one approach to answering this question. A different approach can be found under Design-Reality Gap techniques.

Analysis has shown that there is a general set of success and failure factors that affect e-government projects. From this page, you will find ideas about how to address those factors in order to increase the chance of success and/or reduce the chance of failure in your e-government project. Follow this link for further explanation about these factors (and some related case examples).

By clicking on the links below, you will find some ideas about how to address a particular factor that has been identified as important to the success and failure of e-government projects.

 

Page Author: Richard Heeks. Last updated on 19 October, 2008.
Please contact richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk with comments and suggestions.