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associated factor ranges from “High” to “Low”. The prescriptive matrix includes four
quadrants the “Stars”, “Low hanging fruit”, “Future Potential” and “Near Harvest” as
shown in Figure 3:2.
Considering the matrix, it is obvious that the high level of readiness and low level of
sophistication should be the first options to consider. This is referred to as “Low-
Hanging Fruit” (Chang, et al., 2003).
Furthermore, the World Wide Worx (Worx, 2011) conducted a research that shows a
number of challenges and barriers given by industry leaders that hinders the success of
m-Government implementation. A checklist has been developed as proposed by
Goldstuck (2003) based on these challenges and should be use on the outset of the
implementation. This is so that it is easy to identify which barriers can be encountered
and therefore dealt with accordingly. Table 3:5 presents a checklist of barriers and
challenges developed by the World Wide Worx Survey (Goldstuck, 2003).
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