“…For this reason, the UTAUT2 model, as outlined in Figure 1 was chosen in this study to assess the relevance and effect of five moderator variables (age, gender, level of education, location of citizen's residence, and vernacular language options on e-government websites) on citizens' behavioral intention to adopt e-government services. Furthermore, the UTAUT2 is the most comprehensive model (Tavares, and Oliveira, 2016;Mahfuz, Khanam, and Hu, 2016) that has been extensively used in many contemporary empirical studies on ICT adoption and utilization (Al-Mamary, Alnashmi, Hassan and Shamsuddin, 2016; Venkatesh and Bala, 2008) -hence the same reason for the researchers to adopt it in this study. Moreover, in the context of the SADC region, specifically focusing on the Zimbabwean and Zambian case, the researcher found that empirical research on egovernment adoption and utilization using the UTAUT2 model are lacking (with the exception of Bwalya and Healy, 2010).…”