Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:	GR/T27020/01
Title:	NETWORK: Network for e-Government Integration and Systems Evaluation (e-GISE)
Principal Investigator:	Professor Z Irani
Other Investigators:	Professor M Alshawi Mr A Badii Dr AD Elliman Professor R Hackney Professor K Liu Professor A Macintosh Mr G Orange Professor R Procter Dr SC Smithson Dr M Themistocleous Professor D Wastell Professor M D Williams Professor M Zairi
Researcher Co-investigators:	Mr OD Sarikas
Project Partners:	Chartered Institute of Public Finance Conwy County Borough Council EETDT & Norfolk County Council Foreign Academic Institution London Borough of Havering Office of the e-Envoy Oracle Corporation U K Ltd Syzygy UK Limited The Scottish Government Welsh Assembly Government Wolverhampton City Council
Department:	Information Systems & Computing
Organisation:	Brunel University
Scheme:	Standard Research
Starts:	01 November 2004	Ends:	30 April 2008	Value (£):	58,011
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Information and communication technologies: Software Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Information Technologies
Related Grants:
Panel History:
Summary
E-government has rapidly become a political imperative at local, national and international level. With the growth of the Internet and public access to information, government agencies at all levels rushed to publish strategies in the mid-1990s that created a muddle of information and policy with no clearly defined audience. Nonetheless, between 2002-2006, e-Government projects will cost UK taxpayers 7.4bn and failures of may have disastrous consequences. At present evaluation is mainly volumetric or case study coverage with only vague notions of benefit to the citizen. Clearly, to make adoption more successful, there is a need to better understand the issues surrounding e-Government; in particular, gaining a clearer insight into the barriers, benefit realisations, risk management or mitigation, and cost management, which together provide decision makers with a realistic insight into e-Government infrastructure planning. The purpose of the e-GISE network will be to promote national debate and highlight research strategies to increase understanding of e-Government, and the processes involved in evaluating decisions surrounding human, organisational and technical components of information society technologies (IST). In particular, the network will explore IST strategies and their embedded mechanisms for evaluation and integration within government and the service or public sector.
Final Report Summary
At the time of the proposal, e-government had rapidly become a political imperative at local, national and international level. With the growth of the Internet and public access to information, government agencies at all levels rushed to publish strategies in the mid-1990s that created a muddle of information and policy with no clearly defined audience. Nonetheless, between 2002-2006, e-Government projects were expected to cost UK taxpayers 7.4bn and failures of may have disastrous consequences. At the time of the proposal, evaluation was mainly volumetric or case study coverage with only vague notions of benefit to the citizen. Clearly, to make adoption more successful, there was a need to better understand the issues surrounding e-Government; in particular, gaining a clearer insight into the barriers, benefit realisations, risk management or mitigation, and cost management, which together provide decision makers with a realistic insight into e-Government infrastructure planning. The purpose of the e-GISE network was to promote national debate and highlight research strategies to increase understanding of e-Government, and the processes involved in evaluating decisions surrounding human, organisational and technical components of information society technologies (IST). In particular, the network explored IST strategies and their embedded mechanisms for evaluation and integration within government and the service or public sector.
Further Information:
Organisation Website:	http://www.brunel.ac.uk