TY - JFULL AU - Isaac Kofi Mensah and Mi Jianing PY - 2016/9/ TI - E-Government, China Internet Plus, and the One Belt One Road Initiative: The Africa Connection T2 - International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering SP - 2633 EP - 2638 VL - 10 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10004987 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 116, 2016 N2 - The lack of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure in African countries is hampering the successful adoption, development and implementation of e-government in Africa. Electronic government is the use of ICTs to modernize government public administration processes and to provide government services to citizens with a purpose to enhance efficiency, accountability, and transparency in government’s interaction with the citizenry. ICT application in public administration has the potential to modernize and create smarter government and improvement in public service delivery. China’s Internet Plus policy and One Belt One Road strategy present a golden opportunity for countries in Africa to attract the huge financial investment through Chinese IT companies to develop and close Africa’s ICT infrastructure gap. This study recommends the establishment of One Belt One Road ICT Infrastructure Fund for Africa (OBOR ICT Fund for Africa) to enable countries in Africa to source solely for the purpose of ICT infrastructure development in the public sector/government machinery which would in turn promote the adoption and development of e-government in the public sectors of respective countries in Africa. ER -