IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

A Model for Evaluation and Development of Citizens' Electronic Readiness for Deployment of an E-City Using Structural Equation Modeling

A Model for Evaluation and Development of Citizens' Electronic Readiness for Deployment of an E-City Using Structural Equation Modeling
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Vahid Baradaran (Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch, Tehran, Iran), Sorour Farokhi (Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch, Tehran, Iran)and Zahra Ahamdi (Islamic Azad University, Zahedan Branch, Zahedan, Iran)
Copyright: 2018
Volume: 26
Issue: 4
Pages: 23
Source title: Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Zuopeng (Justin) Zhang (University of North Florida, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/JGIM.2018100108

Purchase


Abstract

This article describes how as the world moves faster and faster towards a digital society, moving toward electronic cities is inevitable due to population growth and transformation of human relationships. Such trend is almost impossible without having electronic cities and citizens. Today, governments seek to improve their services by relying on new ICT solutions so that citizens get the services they want with the best quality, least cost, and in the shortest time possible. Considering the importance of this issue, in this article a model for evaluation and development of citizens' electronic readiness for deployment of an electronic city has been proposed. The present article is descriptive in terms of methodology and a survey in terms of data collection using a questionnaire with a population of 384 citizens of The Citizens of a City in Iran. The aspects this article explores include technical and communication infrastructure, business environment, and culture and society. These factors were investigated considering 33 indices derived from SEM as well as using SPSS and AMOS and the hypotheses of the research were tested. The results show that the model has an overall fitting and that there is a positive, significant relation between the variables and the citizens' E-readiness and using these indices is a good basis for presenting a model for the evaluation of citizens' E-readiness. According to the results obtained from the analysis of the research model, it was found that compared with other factors the understudy city lacked a proper technical and communication infrastructure. Therefore, some solutions for increasing citizens' E-readiness have been offered.

Related Content

Peijin Li, Xiutong Yi, Chonghui Zhang, Tomas Baležentis. © 2024. 29 pages.
Hyundong Nam, Taewoo Nam, Songeun Kim. © 2024. 21 pages.
Hsiang-Lan Cheng, Chiew Mei Tan, Chao-Min Chiu, Hsin-Yi Huang, Yi-Chien Lee. © 2024. 39 pages.
Santosh Kumar Srivastava, Susmi Routray, Surajit Bag, Shivam Gupta, Justin Zuopeng Zhang. © 2024. 29 pages.
Lan Zhang, Yuwei Ye, Zixuan Meng, Ning Ma, Chia-Huei Wu. © 2024. 20 pages.
. © 2024.
Yongling Zhang, Huaqing Du, Tianyu Piao, Hongyu Shi, Sang-Bing (Jason) Tsai. © 2024. 26 pages.
Body Bottom