The First e-Government Research Paper

I’m going to nominate W. Howard Gammon writing in Public Administration Review in 1954.  Please comment with earlier nominations, but otherwise, W. Howard Gammon becomes the godfather of e-government research.

Of course Gammon’s review article: “The Automatic Handling of Office Paper Work” doesn’t mention e-government: according to Heeks & Bailur’s “Analyzing e-Government Research”, “The term ‘electronic government’ seems to have first come to prominence when used in the 1993 U.S. National Performance Review, whereas ‘e-government’ seems to have first come to prominence in 1997.”

However, Gammon is writing about the use of ICTs in the public sector: which is a common definition of e-government.  Hence, his is an article about e-government, even though computing was just in its infancy with, as he notes, some technical literature available but very little written for a management audience and nothing – until his review article – for a public management audience.

>>ver artigo