7. Conclusions and recommendations
Despite of the enormous efforts of the public organisations in the State of Kuwait to apply e-Services and the promotion of e-Government were frequently on the political agenda, the information environment within these organisations is not adequate for applying the e-Government. The overall e-Readiness of the public organisations for applying e-Government is only 54%. Ninety percent of the public organisations have adopted ambitious plans to deliver their e-Services within the 10 coming years, while others have seen a more unstructured development. In addition, 50% of the information technology employees in these organisations agreed that the network backbone technologies and infrastructure that connect their organisations to the public network is ready for applying the e-Government and they satisfied about the performance of their organisation towards applying e-Government. Finally, there are several trends in public organisations in the state of Kuwait towards the development of a networked e-Government, which will require: