Understanding electronic government research and smart city: A framework and empirical evidence

Smart cities have been evolving since their early appearance in late 1990s from metropolitan-wide Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based solutions to today’s innovations –not necessarily based on ICTthat utilize city resources and improve local everyday life. This paper attempts to answer two research questions: (a) Does e1 Corresponding author

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