{"title":"E-Government and E-Records: Challenges and prospects for African Records Managers and Archivists","authors":"Ga Kamatula","doi":"10.4314/ESARJO.V29I1.64294","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the challenges and prospects of e-government and e-records for African records managers and archivists. It defines the concepts of e-government and e-records. Further, the article provides an overview of the current situation of e-records management and e-government as a result of the new ICTs development. Perspectives of e-government and its link with e-records will also be explored. Further, advantages and disadvantages of e-records and egovernment implementation will be squarely analyzed. Both previous and current literatures on e-records and e-government will be presented.","PeriodicalId":125371,"journal":{"name":"ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ESARJO.V29I1.64294","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article discusses the challenges and prospects of e-government and e-records for African records managers and archivists. It defines the concepts of e-government and e-records. Further, the article provides an overview of the current situation of e-records management and e-government as a result of the new ICTs development. Perspectives of e-government and its link with e-records will also be explored. Further, advantages and disadvantages of e-records and egovernment implementation will be squarely analyzed. Both previous and current literatures on e-records and e-government will be presented.