Investigation of eGovernment Services and Alignment between Business and Information Systems

Abstract

Inhabitant's implementation of eGovernment services is a key objective for the Government of developed and developing countries. However, to improve the eGovernment services it is important for any Government to align all stakeholders so that the needs of citizens can be examined and addressed. This paper proposed a framework of an ideal pattern of alignment for the Government of Saudi Arabia. The framework has been validated empirically and the result indicates that the Government of Saudi Arabia is spending a huge amount of budget to improve the Government services, but still many services are slow and are not as per expectations. Therefore, citizens of KSA recommended alignment between eGovernment agencies and IS department. CCS Concepts • Social and professional topics➝ Management of computing and information systems ➝Professional topics ➝ Management of computing and information systems ➝ Implementation management • Social and professional topics➝ Management of computing and information systems ➝Professional topics ➝ Management of computing and information systems ➝Software management Keywords