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The Impact of Financial Technology on Facilitating E-Government Services in Egypt

The Journal of Distribution Science / The Journal of Distribution Science, (P)1738-3110; (E)2093-7717
2019, v.17 no.5, pp.51-59
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15722/jds.17.5.201905.51
GOHARY, Esam El
GOHARY,, E. E. (2019). The Impact of Financial Technology on Facilitating E-Government Services in Egypt. The Journal of Distribution Science, 17(5), 51-59, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15722/jds.17.5.201905.51

Abstract

Purpose - Nowadays financial technology is crucial for each organization to facilitate business transactions and make them easier. This paper was conducted with the purpose of determining the effect of fintech including services e-payment, bills e-payment, ways of payment and bank accounts with e-government on facilitating e-government services in terms of availability, accessibility, efficiency and responsiveness. Research design, data, and methodology - The problem of this paper is summarized in the lack of studies in this subject. So, a survey was applied on 400 respondents in Egypt to investigate the impact of fintech on facilitating e-government services, in order to determine which fintech item can affect any of facilitating services dimensions. Results - The results revealed that bank accounts with e-government doesn't affect any of facilitating services dimension, while each of the remain items has an effect on some dimensions and does not has effect on others. Conclusions - Data analysis revealed that the most obstacles that face respondents resulted in the weakness of internet networks, lack of efficient employees in e-government portal and lack of system effectiveness. In general, it clears that fintech implementation affect the dimensions of facilitating e-government services, however not all fintech implementation components have the same effect on the dimensions.

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Financial technology, Egyptian e-government, ICT in e-government, Fintech in e-government

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