Digital government and the change management challenges : field study

Abstract EN

The e-government or digital government will play a key role in shaping the traditional governmental institutions.

The impact of the digital government on the Egyptian governmental institutions has not been critically studied.

It was reported on the Egyptian Information society, 13^th of September 1999, that the former president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak said that the main aim of the information technology is to improve the living standard of all Egyptians.

No further progress was made following his statement and it left Egypt further than ever from implementing the e-government.

Mubarak has repeatedly warned that Egypt's rapid population growth is putting pressure on the country's economy.

Moreover; the explosive population growth in Egypt has led to a huge influx of people to join the governmental administration body and it has resulted in 7 million persons were employed in the civil service and parastatal of the productive and service sectors.