Development of a cross-platform mobile eGovernment system for suppliers (A case study from UAE)

Many terms were used over the past on the automated government services and one of which is the electronic government that genuinely emerged to public in the early 1990s as developed and used by the US, however the E-government on the other hand found its way towards prominence in 1997. The e-government or e-governance uses its core Information and communication Technologies (ICT) to leverage services rendered by public sector. The e-government is looked upon as a very rich resource that can provide organizations with a competitive cutting edge value if it´s well managed and improved. The rapid growth of computing and ICT had encouraged governments to encompass the technological changes and advances into their policies, forward looking and strategic development processes. The UAE government has promoted the e-government initiatives to improve system of governance in place to provide and make the business of governance more efficient, effective, qualitatively responsive, transparent and accountable to the society. Currently the Smartphone have become an alternative tool for traditional desktop machines that can also provide feasibility to browse and get services easily anytime and anywhere. However, those services might be offered on various operating systems which requires specific platform to run on which become a burden to end-users. In this research paper we discuss about the design and implementation of a cross-platform mobile eGovernment system for suppliers.