Status of E-Government in Iraq and What the Challenges of Development and Implementation

After the large developments in various aspects of economic, social, political and cultural life, where it was to increase the awareness of citizens the major role in affecting performance of organizations and institutions, so taken various possible means and employed in order to provide its services with speed, precision, efficiency and effectiveness. Once the network Internet appeared even accelerated many of the countries to benefit from this spider network in the performance of its functions and tasks, which emerged into being what is known as e-government. The concepts of e-government has taken to development as a result of utilization of information and communication technology applications, where the traditional offices dealings became backward in all aspects of life, prompting the governments of developed countries to take advantage of information technology and harnessed in the process of providing services for its citizens. In this paper, researcher addresses the concept and the sectors of e-government then discuses the status of e-government around world and in Iraq, finally studies what are the problems and challenges which facing the development of e-government in Iraq under the current circumstances.