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Informationen zum Autor Barney Warf is a professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, USA. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography. Much of his research concerns economic geography, emphasizing producer services and telecommunications. He has studied a range of topics that fall under the umbrella of globalization, including New York as a global city, fiber optics, the satellite industry, offshore banking, international producer services, and the geographies of the Internet. He has also written on military spending, voting technologies, the U.S. electoral college, and religious diversity. He has authored, co-authored, or coedited seven books, two encyclopedias, 32 book chapters and more than 100 refereed journal articles. Currently, he serves as editor of The Professional Geographer, co-editor of Growth and Change, co-book review editor for Dialogues in Human Geography, and edits a series of geography texts for Rowman and Littlefield publishers. He has served or serves on the editorial boards of the Geographical Review, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Growth and Change, Professional Geographer, Urban Geography, International Regional Science Review, and Geografiska Annaler. [He has an h-index of 16 according to Scopus.]
Sommario
1. Introduction
1a. What is e-government?
1b. Asia's recent economic growth
1c. Overview of chapters
2. E-government in perspective
2a. Types of e-government
2b. Models of e-government
2c. Impacts of e-government
3. The Asian internet
3a. growth over time and space
3b. digital divides
4. E-government in China
5. E-government in Korea and Japan
6. E-government in Central Asia
7. E-government in South Asia
8. E-government in Southeast Asia
9. Corruption and E-government in Asia
10. Conclusions
