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The term (in all its uses) is generally agreed to derive from " electronic government" which introduces the notion and practicalities of electronic technology into the various dimensions and ramifications of government.The most frequent use of the term eGovernment (also spelled e-government as well as egovernment, Egovernment, E-government, E-Government, e-Gov, egov, EGOV, E-GOV and EGovernment and described as online government) is related to:
- the delivery of public services, where there is an online or Internet based aspect to the delivery of the services (online government services are sometimes called e-Services, often a label which is considered to be a distinction from e-commerce but in some cases e-services and e-commerce are practically interchangeable terms).
- the conduct of government business where the activities of those involved in the process of government itself (such as legislators and the legislative process) where some electronic or online aspect is under consideration.
- voting where some technological aspect is under consideration.
1 Non-Internet aspects of eGovernment
- It would be easy to make the mistake of assuming that eGovernment was all about "online government" or "Internet based government"
- Many non-Internet based "electronic government" issues exist which appear under the eGovernment heading
- Similarly, it would also be an error to imagine that all Internet-related eGovernment is about government websites
Non-Internet aspects of eGovernment include:
- Telephone and telecommunications issues in a government context, including:
- the provision of government services by telephone (such as in call centers)
- the use of fax in the provision of government services and the conduct of government business
- the use of mobile phone (and PDA) based communications technology (such as SMS text messaging and MMS as well as 3G, GPRS, WiFi, WiMAX and Bluetooth) in the provision of (and as a means of access to) government services and the conduct of government business
- general Government IT, which is now starting to be reclassified as eGovernment, in many cases because it is becoming ever more difficult to disentangle internal (i.e., non-"citizen-facing") IT resources and projects (which have hitherto mostly not been seen as part of eGovernment) from external (and thus mostly already seen as eGovernment) service provision. This reclassification is by no means universal and is often controversial.
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- Polling station technology (where non-online e-voting is being considered)
- TV and radio-based delivery of government services (this often has a crossover with the Internet, but also includes many non-Internet based aspects and projects such as Digital Audio Broadcasting ( DABDAB is an abbreviation that can stand for several things: Digital Audio Broadcast Daytona Beach International Airport The Daba language of Cameroon Dave & Buster's restaraunts in the United States the German Aikido Federation, or Deutschen Aikido-Bundes e) Digital TV and High Definition TV ( HDTV) provision)
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