Who wrote the first research paper about e-government?
I’m going to nominate W. Howard Gammon writing in Public Administration Review in 1954 [2]. 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” [3], “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.
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