Electronic Government, from Theory to Practice

One of the major and most important evolutions is proposing information and its main role importance in organizations and societies. Environment’s evolution process has been so that has reached from hunting period, which has been the earliest status of human life, to information period and even some believe that nowadays is extra info period. Changes accelerated trend is so that in the not so far future, we will observe generating organizations that will have fundamental difference from our current perceptions of organization. Applying information technology in different parts of the government in order to increase productivity and promote services level is called electronic government. The most important result of this affair is increasing people’s satisfaction provided that electronic government implementation is done correctly and successfully. Electronic government is challenging because it can be a basic step for governments. After the electronic government formation in the world, its performance in Iran was recognized since 2002-2003. In spite of several years, this category has not been completely performed yet. In this paper, it is tried to deal with electronic government concepts and definitions, its formation history in Iran and in the world, its functions, electronic organizations features, prerequisites and necessity of performing electronic government, its effects and potential advantages, generation stages, generation steps of a successful electronic government and current status of electronic government in Iran.