United nations index on development of the electronic government as a key indicator of introduction of information technology in activity of state authorities and governing of the republic of Uzbekistan

Nowadays, many governments are taking steps for e-government implementation, which allows enhancing the delivery of public services and citizens’ engagements with government. E-government initiatives in many developing countries, including Uzbekistan, face many significant barriers regardless of how advanced or modest a country in terms of ICT infrastructure and deployment that can interfere with the progress towards realizing a proper implementation of e-government. E-government of Uzbekistan is still at the initial stage in transition to electronic services. So, this paper presents the main barriers affecting e-government development in Uzbekistan which negatively affected people’s decisions to use the technology and inhibited decision makers from implementing or adopting e-government initiatives.