e-Government in Asia:Origins, Politics, Impacts, Geographies

Barney Warf is a professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, USA. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography. Much of his research concerns economic geography, emphasizing producer services and telecommunications. He has studied a range of topics that fall under the umbrella of globalization, including New York as a global city, fiber optics, the satellite industry, offshore banking, international producer services, and the geographies of the Internet. He has also written on military spending, voting technologies, the U.S. electoral college, and religious diversity. He has authored, co-authored, or coedited seven books, two encyclopedias, 32 book chapters and more than 100 refereed journal articles. Currently, he serves as editor of The Professional Geographer, co-editor of Growth and Change, co-book review editor for Dialogues in Human Geography, and edits a series of geography texts for Rowman and Littlefield publishers.He has served or serves on the editorial boards of the Geographical Review, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Growth and Change, Professional Geographer, Urban Geography, International Regional Science Review, and Geografiska Annaler.[He has an h-index of 16 according to Scopus.]

• 1. Introduction1a. What is e-government?1b. Asia’s recent economic growth1c. Overview of chapters2. E-government in perspective2a. Types of e-government2b. Models of e-government2c. Impacts of e-government3. The Asian internet3a. growth over time and space3b. digital divides4. E-government in China5. E-government in Korea and Japan6. E-government in Central Asia7. E-government in South Asia8. E-government in Southeast Asia9. Corruption and E-government in Asia10. Conclusions

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