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Korean Journal of Policy Studies
Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University

Korean J. Policy Stud. 2016; 31(3):47-74

pISSN: 1225-5017, eISSN: 2765-2807

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52372/kjps31303

Article

What Should We Do for E-government in Nepal and How? An AHP Approach

Devid Kumar Basyal1, Jin-Wan Seo2
1Devid Kumar Basyal is a PhD candidate at Department of Public Administration, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea. E-mail: devidbasyal@gmail.com.
2Jin-Wan Seo (PhD) is a professor at Department of Public Administration, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea. Prof. Seo is the corresponding author of this article. Email: sjinwan@inu.ac.kr.

© Copyright 2016 Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Sep 05, 2016; Revised: Oct 22, 2016; Revised: Dec 18, 2016; Accepted: Dec 20, 2016

Published Online: Dec 31, 2016

Abstract

As E-government has been referred to as the use of ICTs to transform government by making it more accessible, effective and accountable, the Nepal government has taken some positive initiatives for its development. However, according to the UN evaluation, the current E-government level in Nepal is still very poor. This paper raised two research questions: what the major problems of E-government implementation in Nepal are and which problem(s) should be solved first. For this purpose, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was used to rank the problems in hierarchical order. This study finds that among the various problems of E-government implementation in Nepal, a lack of strong leadership and government will, political-administrative instability, and resistance to change within organizations were again highlighted as the most severe ones by experts.

Keywords: E-government in Nepal; E-government Implementation; E-government Readiness; AHP Analysis