Risk Assessment 1

Running Head: RISK ASSESSMENT OF E-GOVERNMENT

Risk Assessment on e-Government

Srinivas Panth

University of Maryland University College

 Risk Assessment 2

Abstract

The current trend of Information Technology and advances provide many benefits. One of

them is the move of Government services from conventional paper-based systems to

software-based and paperless digital systems. This is known as e-Government.e-

Government has many benefits but at the same time we have to keep in mind the constant

threat of cyber security risks. Recent incidents such as IT security compromises at major

corporations such as SONY,TARGET,etc have borne out this fact.

In my paper, I attempt to bring out the risks in moving to an e-Government system.I plan

to use references from the the risks of software and cloud-based systems to support my

paper.
 Risk Assessment 3

Annotated Bibliography:

Mnica, M., Baquerizo, A., Jos, A., Rubio, B., Luis Javier, G., & Ali, A. (2014). E-
GOVERNMENT: BENEFITS, RISKS AND A PROPOSAL TO ASSESSMENT
INCLUDING CLOUD COMPUTING AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

The new information technologies facilitate the transformation of traditional

administrative processes to services that can be performed online. The government as part
of its technological innovation has also joined the network of Internet services, resulting
in what is now known as e-government. Due to the type of information that is managed,
computer security is a crucial aspect in these systems. This paper indicates the current
status of e-government systems, the internet security vulnerabilities, the benefits
and risks to which it is exposed and the identification of the bases to have an e-
government security management.

Sundberg, L. (2016). Risk and Decision in Collaborative e-Government: An Objectives-

Oriented Approach.Electronic Journal Of E-Government, 14(1), 36-47.

Developing e-services in the public sector is a demanding task that involves a variety of
stakeholders and values. Further complexity is added by organizational and institutional
challenges, especially when specialized government agencies are expected to collaborate
to create seamless, integrated services. This paper focuses on decision making
and risk analysis in two Swedish collaborative e-Government cases. Empirical material
consists of semi-structured interviews and project documentation, which are analyzed
using an objectives-oriented Logical Framework Approach (LFA). The results highlight
two factors that influence the outcomes of the projects; governance for collaboration and
financial models for distributing resources between government agencies. When these
formal support mechanisms are not provided, they become risks for the projects and
create uncertainties in decision processes. While the studied government context has
matured enough to develop fully functional platforms for e-services, these uncertainties
become issues when public values are to be measured and evaluated. The paper concludes
by suggesting the use of public values as objectives together with measurable indicators in
order to create a common language for decision making and risk management
across government agencies.

Weerakkody, V., Irani, Z., Lee, H., Osman, I., & Hindi, N. (2015). E-government
implementation: A bird's eye view of issues relating to costs, opportunities, benefits and
risks. Information Systems Frontiers, 17(4), 889-915. doi:10.1007/s10796-013-9472-3
After more than a decade of comprehensive research work in the area of
electronic government (e-government), no attempt has yet been made to undertake a
systematic literature review on the costs, opportunities, benefits and risks that influence
the implementation of e-government. This is particularly significant given the various
related challenges that governments have faced over the years when implementing e-
government initiatives. Hence, the aim of this paper is to undertake a comprehensive
analysis of relevant literature addressing these issues using a systematic review of 132
studies identified from the Scopus online database and Google Scholar together with a
 Risk Assessment 4

manual review of relevant papers from journals dedicated to

electronic government research such as Electronic Government, an International Journal
(EGIJ), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) and
Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy (TGPPP). The overall review
indicated that although a large number of papers discuss costs, opportunities, benefits
and risks, treatment of these issues have tended to be superficial. Moreover, there is a lack
of empirical studies which can statistically evaluate the performance of these constructs in
relation to the various e-government systems. Therefore, this research would
helpgovernments to better analyse the impact of costs, opportunities, benefits
and risks on the success of e-government systems and its pre-adoption from an
implementation perspective.