Electronic government: Perspectives from E-commerce

With the advent of Digital Age, new technologies of e-commerce might be successfully employed to increase citizens' access to public information, to support interaction with public departments, and to enhance local, regional, national, mid supranational governments' responsiveness to citizens' current needs and future expectations. This paper explores e-government front an e-commerce perspective and examines various aspects of techniques, methods and toots ranging front business process reengineering to knowledge management to agent technology, which can support efforts of modernizing government.