Information Communication Technologies (ICT) has offered m-government applications as an intermediate technology to provide effective and efficient government services to the public. Due to high rate of corruptions in developing states, government policies diversified governmental services from offline to virtualized perspective to expose accessibility, transparency, accountability and accessibility through mobile government. Deployment of such ICT tool also exposed a unique opportunity for the recovery of the public confidence against government which has damaged due to corruption activities in country. Virtualization of the government services became compulsory due to high rate of corruption that occurred in the economic context and it became a serious obstacle for economic development of developing states. The virtualized services aimed to harmonize governmental services into mobile platform in order to become more transparent to the public. This research paper comparatively investigates the mobile government services that are located in Malta and Singapore which are classified as developing countries. The criteria of the comparison have done based on demographic structure of the country, M-government policies and ICT infrastructure of the country. The findings of this study exposed the impact of e-government practices and differences between them in terms of applicability and provide a specific point of view for m-government adoption policy.
Nowadays, mobile government applications developed to provide service to citizens of developed and developing countries more efficiently, effectively and quickly. E-government applications of information and communication technologies in a guided way to mobilize the services offered to the citizens are the simplest definition of the mobile government. The spread usage of mobile services forced new transition of e-government services inevitably to mobility [
ICT is one of the indispensable elements of life in economic and social life. World using ICT in the public sector more consistent, tended to structure offering cheap and accurate service. This structure is defined as e- government. Using technological possibilities of access to ICT and public services citizens in this way to get more efficient and higher quality services indicate a need beyond necessity. ICT are closer to the state government to ensure citizens facilitate knowledge management [
Information Communication Technologies (ICT), which combines computer and communication technologies, information constituting any kind of printed and written information that is accessible by others and visual tools [
E-Government: Using the state’s duty is to fulfill against citizens and services with citizens, state that the duties and responsibilities of the electronic communications and computing environments in a continuous and safe execution of the M state experienced in the real-life state for more efficient operation of e-government in terms of accessibility wireless internet infrastructure mobile applications are moving to laptops [
Mobile government is a state of providing all e-government services to public through mobile environment with the advantage of the mobile technology. The rapid changes in technological innovations and impact of the Internet forced e-government state to be changed and spread into mobile environment [
The successful adoption of the Mobile Government is possible through designing an M-government applications to have an easy access, functional and non-complex interface for the citizens. The digital government strategy is also defined by US and basic conceptual model is designed by considering different principles [
The spread of ICT all around the world lead many opportunities and practical solutions to improve the utilization of resources in developing states. As a result of technological innovations on public services and quality, the cost of services significantly decreased.
Governments have proposed e-government services in mobile platforms after exposing the demand of mobility and necessity of dissemination in e-services in countrywide. Applications derived from e-government in mobile platform have also been supporter for government services where an application illustrates the importance of ease of use and anytime access. Developing countries needs to mobile government. Governments enable country’s citizens to engage with an increasingly mobile workforce to access high-quality mobile government services at anywhere, anytime and on any device [
Government must be able to provide uninterrupted information services to public with quality and provide sustainable information participation of citizen’s with engagement of mobile government applications. Mobile
devices allow users to conduct convenient operation and 24 hours effectively-sustainable information sharing through e-government applications. Today, citizen monitoring applications and services used by national government to facilitate the collection of statistics and operations of the state, public services and information about the public. Additionally, Mobile Applications used to track of citizens tax payments and legal transactions resulting in the reduction of transaction of paper [
A Malta has started Mobile government applications and virtualization from 2002 to the applications they are developing, especially since citizen-centered paradigm and in line with the mission.
The small population of the Maltese government, Information and resources that it allocates the correct and effective use of informatics and communication technologies has led to rapid progress in Communication Technology [
Government and including the industrial action Informatics of the new generation in this package and Communication Technology infrastructure and development, intelligent workforce development, a better life using information and communications technologies for the quality, improve public services and to facilitate the management is of the e-commerce development objectives [
According to the statistics of the Maltese government enterprise (72) follow immediately after the economy is mainly a strategy (69) and social development (43) seems to give importance [
Support received from external sources of Malta, the advantage of the small population, it is seen that the source of accurate time and because the site in place using importance is given to the ICT infrastructure and mobile state of development of the state policy today an important place in the mobile state of Malta.
Singapore government’s Intelligent Nation 2015 (İn 2015) ICT strategy, m-government strategy has been created in 2005 under the leadership of the Singapore Infocomm Development Agency (IDA) in accordance with the source of their own [
E-Government to integrated Government (iGov) strategy aims to; Increasing Reach & Richness of e-Services, Increasing Citizens’ Mindshare in e-Engagement, Enhancing Capacity & Synergy in Government, Enhancing National Competitive Advantage. Increasing Reach and richness of e-Services, m-government where the strategy hosting, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is used by more than 300 mobile applications as active, to be reliable and useful by Singapore citizens has led to its receiving positive feedbacks [
According to statistics Singapore government provided by most of the development strategies (27), then has allocated respectively ,social and institutional development, (14) and other development goals(11) [
According to priority, Singapore İn 2015 ICT Strategy development: economic development through particular institutions, Innovative systems and infrastructure dimensions, Innovation systems, services and applications with dimensions of social and institutional development, multiple development Another strategy (multiple development) mostly with the aim to advance their goals belongs to the infrastructure and innovation system. The
The MGOV dimensions presents a consolidated pool of MGOV strategies according to the four dimensions of the MGOV framework; Institutions, Innovation System, Infrastructure and Services and Applications [
Singapore state e-government and m-government gives rise to slower progress because of Less of the outsourcing of the Singapore government is more than the population, and the recycling (feedback) to be healthy, resource allocation to as the state’s need for ICT and infrastructure.
In conclusion, this study’s findings show that e-government to m-government is inevitable. ICT is no longer a branch of technology sees leverage for all sectors. The small island developing States, Malta and Singapore mobile government between were compared with how efficient and effective use and as a result.
Malta began to mobile government application development in 2002. The small population has become easier to get feedback. We also have a strong external sources of Malta, the large budget allocation to the mobile state in terms of internal resources and Malta can be said referring to the support received from the European Union that, Malta has used although a small island country mobile government applications effectively and efficiently.
The Singapore government has begun in 1980 to develop mobile applications acted under separate plans each year until 2005. But in 2005, it acted according to plan named Infocomm which was the 10-year plan valid until 2015. Singapore’s not too much government budget allocation to the mobile application from its internal budget , less external sources, causes of not too much developing in mobile government. In addition to making any conscious attempt to make it difficult to get feedback because of crowded population of the population is among the reasons why more states develop mobile applications.
MustafaBal,Cem GonencBiricik,ArifSari, (2015) Dissemination of Information Communication Technologies: Mobile Government Practices in Developing States. International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,08,543-551. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2015.813049