Title: SaaS-model-based approach for mobile government security

Authors: Jun Zhuo, June Wei, Liangliang Chen, Zhibo Li

Addresses: School of Management, Zhejiang University, Administration Building 1005-06, Yuhangtang Rd. 388, Hangzhou 310058, China. ' Department of Management/MIS, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA. ' School of Management, Zhejiang University, Dangyang 5-403, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China. ' School of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Lantian 6-5071, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China

Abstract: Mobile government is playing a more and more important role in the government information and service delivery to businesses and citizens. However, there are still many problems in the development of mobile government such as security and privacy, low cost-effective, redundant construction and low utilisation. This paper aims at providing a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-model-based approach to solve some major problems in mobile government; and thereby, integration of SaaS with mobile government will proceed more smoothly. Directions for further research are presented, and academic and practical implications stemming from this study are also discussed.

Keywords: m-government; mobile government; SaaS; software-as-a-service; database security models; privacy; mobile communications; government information services; service delivery; electronic government; e-government.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2010.035482

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2010 Vol.8 No.6, pp.654 - 666

Published online: 30 Sep 2010 *

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