Comparing attitudes towards adoption of e-government between urban users and rural users: an empirical study in Chongqing municipality, China

Weibo to the Rescue? A study of social media use in citizen–government relations in China

“…A number of innovation studies have added the variable 'trust' as addition to the more generic theories such as UTAUT. In general, citizen's trust in government is an individual citizen (A)'s belief that government (B) will act competently, fairly, benevolently and with an eye on integrity and generating public value (Zhang, Zhu 2020, McKnight, Choudhury & Kacmar 2002, Pavlou, Gefen 2005). Trust in government has been found to be the most important determinant of e-services adoption (Carter et al 2011, Zhu, Azizah & Hsiao 2021.…”

“…Apart from its massive user base (close to 1 billion users of domestic social media platforms, 600.000 Party and government social media accounts (Qin, Strömberg & Wu 2017)), China is of interest because central and local governments have adopted electronic channels for administrative communication for decades (Qin, Strömberg & Wu 2017, Harwit 2014, King, Pan & Roberts 2013; furthermore, it has been argued that in countries lacking strong democratic institutions, social media platforms may serve as alternative platforms for participation and public accountability (Reuter, Szakonyi 2015, Schlaeger, Jiang 2014. In this respect, China's blend of (1) an authoritarian governance regime with relatively low scores on democracy indices (ranked on position 153 out of 167 countries in the Economist's Democracy Index, and on position 153 out of 163 countries on Transparency International's corruption index) and (2) encouragement and appreciation of 'beta-version' local digital grassroots initiatives (Homburg et al 2020, Schlaeger, Jiang 2014, Ma 2013) and (3) government investments in electronic channels and services generally (Zhang, Zhu 2020) make China a relevant point in case. Our aim with this article is to contribute to an explanation of citizen-initiated digital participation in China's political and societal context by confronting hypotheses derived from innovation theories, political theory and institutional theories with original survey data that was gathered in the People's Republic of China.…”

“…Apart from its massive user base (close to 1 billion users of domestic social media platforms, 600,000 party and government social media accounts (Qin et al , 2017)), China is of interest because central and local governments have adopted electronic channels for administrative communication for decades (Qin et al , 2017; Harwit, 2014; King et al , 2013); furthermore, it has been argued that in countries lacking strong democratic institutions, social media platforms may serve as alternative platforms for participation and public accountability (Reuter and Szakonyi, 2015; Schlæger and Jiang, 2014). In this respect, China’s blend of the following generally (Zhang and Zhu, 2020) make China a relevant point in case: an authoritarian governance regime with relatively low scores on democracy indices (ranked on position 153 out of 167 countries in the Economist’s Democracy Index and on position 153 out of 163 countries on Transparency International’s corruption index); encouragement and appreciation of “beta-version” local digital grassroots initiatives (Homburg et al , 2020; Schlæger and Jiang, 2014; Ma, 2013); and government investments in electronic channels and services. …”

Factors Affecting e-Government Adoption by Dairy Farmers: A Case Study in the North-West of Spain

“…In terms of the specific field of the relation existing between farms and the corresponding administrative authorities, it is worth mentioning that, in many cases, it is burdened by the inefficient use of the ICT, since the low-income population find themselves at a disadvantage in terms of connectivity and, by extension, inclusion of the new technologies in their activity [11,12,42]. In the last few years, many studies based on different technology acceptance models by the users have been conducted, mainly in relation to the e-government [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. In studies performed by [46] based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), differences are observed between the determining factors for the adoption of technology in urban and rural areas, in the latter essential for the users being the ease of use, the perceived usefulness, the perceived security, the subjective norm and the inhibiting factor.…”

Türkiye’de E-Devlet Hizmetlerinin Kullanımını Etkileyen Faktörlerin Analizi

“…Elektronik hükümet (e-devlet), bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerini kullanarak hizmet etkinliğini, yönetim verimliliğini, şeffaflığı ve vatandaş katılımını artırmak için kamu sektörlerinde gerçekleşen reformu ifade etmektedir (Zhang & Zhu, 2020). Bilgi teknolojisindeki ilerlemeler, İnternet aracılığıyla e-devlet ile yeni bir hizmet sunumu oluşturmuştur (Baker, 2009).…”