Korean Journal of Policy Studies

Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University

Korean J. Policy Stud. 2015; 30(3):91-123

pISSN: 1225-5017, eISSN: 2765-2807

Article

Strategic Innovation, Knowledge Sharing and Policy Innovation Factors In E-Government in Developing Countries: The Case of Tanzania

Emmanuel Constantine Lupilya¹, Park J. Hun²

¹Emmanuel Constantine Lupilya is a government official working in the Office of the President of Tanzania. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, a Master’s of Science in Information Technology obtained from Finland, a Master’s Degree in e-government and e-policy from Seoul, Korea. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University. His research interests include e-government, e-government policy, public policy, technology inequality, and e-government transformation in developing countries. E-mail: elupilya@gmail.com.

²Professor, Ph.D. in Business Administration (University of Minnesota). Research Interest: Information Management (Administrative Information Management, Business Information Management), Quantitative Analysis, Information Policy, E-Government, Research Methods for Public Administration and Policy. dearpark@snu.ac.kr.

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Received: Oct 12, 2015; Revised: Oct 20, 2015; Revised: Nov 24, 2015; Accepted: Dec 10, 2015

Published Online: Dec 31, 2015

Abstract

The existing gap from strategic innovation in e-government knowledge creation has affected the effort to timely develop e-government policy in Tanzania. This paper is an attempt to describe multiple innovations outside the Tanzania that involve developing country collaboration, institutional innovation and resources and their linkages to national e-government-think tank. The central argument of this paper is to find factors for enhancing the development of national e-government policy innovation outside Tanzania. We developed national e-government policy framework to orchestrate local innovation and forge ahead of the e-government policy innovation. To do so, we developed and administered a set of the questionnaire from government and private institutions, entrepreneurship and social network group. Data collections were conducted from July 15 to September 20, 2015. The exploratory factor analysis using SPSS version 22 was employed to analyze data for strategic innovation, knowledge sharing, and e-government policy innovation. Four critical factors were identified as the key driver to the success of national e-government policy innovation: Coordinate knowledge sharing on e-government policies in the nation and international institutions; empower and coordinate e-government-think tank forum locally and nationally; create a technoculture society at local and national level; and Support e-government research alliance & engagement respectively. In additional, three developing countries were used as a reference model to support these findings. Our conclusion shows how national e-government-think tank and research alliance can become a strategic innovation in e-government towards coordinating knowledge sharing within private and government institutions. This can represent as “valuable and intellectual assets” for government institutions’ stability and change towards national e-government policy innovation process.

Keywords: E-Government Policy; Monocropping; Innovation; Knowledge Creation / sharing; Strategy Innovation; Institutional Capability; Knowledge Crisis