The Barriers Affecting E-government Development in Uzbekistan

Nowadays, many governments are taking steps for e-government implementation, which allows enhancing the delivery of public services and citizens´ engagements with government. E-government initiatives in many developing countries, including Uzbekistan, face many significant barriers regardless of how advanced or modest a country in terms of ICT infrastructure and deployment that can interfere with the progress towards realizing a proper implementation of e-government. E-government of Uzbekistan is still at the initial stage in transition to electronic services. So, this paper presents the main barriers affecting e-government development in Uzbekistan which negatively affected people´s decisions to use the technology and inhibited decision makers from implementing or adopting e-government initiatives. This paper provides - firstly, a theoretical background which consist of e-government definition from different perspectives, the importance of e-government implementation, definition and types of e-government barriers, secondly, the current situation of e-government development in Uzbekistan and finally, the main barriers affecting the development of e-government in Uzbekistan.