Strategic Planning For Implementing E-Government In Iran: Formulating the Strategies

The concept of “electronic government” (e-government) recently introduced as a consequence of IT in the knowledge and information age and has been applied by many governments around the world in practice. Iranian authorities also have decided to take the essential methods required for implementing e-government in Iran. However, the large size of the government in Iran and many other problems such as the lack of required legal, institutional and human resources infrastructures make the planning and implementation a difficult task. In this paper, strategic planning and multi-criteria decision making approaches are used to formulate e-government implementation strategies in Iran. Firstly, through analyzing Iran situation, the restricting as well as the enhancing parameters are identified. Secondly, by considering e-government vision and goals in Iran, initial strategies are determined. Then by taking into account the restricting and enhancing parameters, the feasibility of initial strategies are studied. Finally, by considering the e-government main strategy in Iran the feasible strategies are determined and their priorities are identified.

Keywords:

electronic government (e-government) , strategic planning , restricting and enhancing parameters , and TOPSIS