Effective e-government requires cultural change, the incorporation of inter-organizational teams, identification and evaluation
of knowledge management assets, and incorporation of facilitating information and communication technologies. Government services
must harness this range of information resources. Several governments in the Caribbean have recognized the importance of consolidating
and exploiting their dispersed knowledge resources. The objectives of e-government are being analysed with a view to determining
the most appropriate means of delivering services via electronic means. The paper examines particularly communication with
citizens over the Internet, the delivery of Internet based government information, and aids to the citizenry in using these
new facilities. Telecentres located in libraries and community centres, in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, demonstrate
the early development of facilities for enhancing government communication with citizens over the Internet, and interaction
between citizens and those providing services