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Studying Governmental and Security Obstacles of E-Government Realization Case Study: Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Governorship

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The issue of E-government is one of the most important subjects in information society. E-government is a major and important step for advancement of communications that have been ascertained at the global level. If challenges and obstacles of E-government development can be identified and appropriate strategies can be adopted to eliminate them, E-government implementation will have several advantages for the society. The major purpose of this study was to identify the obstacles of E-government development. These obstacles were classified into two classes of security obstacles and governmental obstacles which were examined using field method. Researcher self-made questionnaire with five-option Likert scale was tool of data collection and the statistical population included all employees of the governorship in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province who were estimated equal to two-hundred seventy eight persons in autumn 2013. One-hundred fifty one questionnaires were distributed randomly using Morgan Table. Reliability of the questionnaire was measured through Cronbach's alpha equal to 0.918; then the components were studied by means of SPSS software. The findings demonstrated that both obstacles are proposed for E-government development and totally security obstacles are the most important obstacles in this regard.