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Is this the first eGovernment research paper? Published 1954
Bycraigthomler 4 May 2011

I’ve been reading the excellent blog post by Richard Heeks in ICTs for Development on The First e-Government Research Paper. He discusses a research paper by W. Howard Gammon on “The Automatic Handling of Office Paper Work” published in 1954 that looks that the impact of ICT on government – noting at the time that…

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