E-government and its impact on national economic development: A case study concerning southern Italy

European governments are implementing e-government for the purpose of services improving, costs reducing, user time saving, increasing effectiveness and efficiency in all sectors. This is the expected outcome from each government. In this way, e-government is strongly related to the economic development. That is why e-government became one of the primary strategies of the Italian government. This study will show the bottleneck related to e-government services implementation and their impact on the economic development of the south of Italy. The paper will define the e-government but also, making use of structural indexes, answer the following question: Why in the South of Italy most of e - government development projects fail? How risks can be reduced? Such a view rejects a stance whereby the e – government could be regarded as ultimately unchangeable. It must instead be seen as under constant development and reinterpretation. All these topics have been discussed in the paper.