INFLUENCEOFPRIVACYONTHEIMPLEMENTATIONOFELECTRONIC GOVERNANCE IN ELGEYO MARAKWET COUNTY.
Abstract
Technology-based service is now a must for both public and private enterprises in the changing, aggressive economic climate of modern globalized economy. The majority of devolved governments recently implemented e-Government platforms to enhance service delivery. These platforms enable residents, business associates, employees, other organizations and the government to receive information and services more quickly and at a lower cost. Due to the devolution of governmental duties, the County governments now have to deal with a huge debt load from former administrations as wellas subpar revenue collection and service delivery methods. The goal of this study wastoevaluatetheinfluenceofprivacyonimplementationofelectronicgovernancein Elgeyo Marakwet County. The study's direction was guided by Technological AcceptanceModel.Fortheinvestigation,descriptiveresearchwasemployed.Thetarget population for the study consisted of 272 participants comprising of; 35 public administrators, 140 ward development committees, 7 public participation officers, 50 county assemblies and executives, 5 communication officers, 15 ICT officers, and 15 public administration officers and the General public as its target audience. Simple randomsamplingwas employedtocollectdatafromasamplesizeof162respondents. Questionnaireswereusedtocollectrespondents’informationforthisstudy.Qualitative data were analyzed using the thematic method. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation are all included in descriptivestatistics.Multipleregressionanalysisandinferentialcorrelationswereused todeterminethechangeinthedependentvariablecausedbytheindependentvariables. Charts and tables were used to present the analyzed data. The results of the study showed that privacy was positively associated with implementation of electronic governanceinElgeyoMarakwetCounty(r=0.548;p=0.000).Thestudyconcludedthat there is security of information while using technology in place used in the implementation of electronic governance in the county, also a policy framework and regulation has been developed by the County Government to support E-Governance. The study recommendedthat the County government should come up with clear are policy framework and regulation governing the use of innovation technology in the County
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