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Analysis: e-Government in Greece
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The state in modern times is considered to be gradually involved with two main challenges: localization of everything non-mobile and non-productive and globalization of everything mobile and lucrative. The financial and legitimating challenges and competition in the concept of the continuing technological progress –the so called New Information and Communication Technologies (NICTs) - created the need for a “new public management”. In this need, e-Government was shaped.
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