Iraqi e-learning Adoption and Iraqi e-Government Weakness

Abstract

E-governments service nowadays globally is a real indicator about countries and societies'
developments. We can say it is the country mirror. Iraqi society, despite all the conditions digitally are
growing up and continuing their movement towards building knowledge society without any noticed
influence from the government. Iraq as a country ranked in the 155 position between the world countries
according to the United Nations e-government survey 2018, and also according to the ITE statistical reports
103% of the Iraqi people have cell phones (82% according to the World Bank reports), and 100% of these
cell phones are smart phones. With 17% the Internet using growing up percentage between Iraqi population.
Such numbers give us the indication that Iraqi society can be an electronic society easily, but the fact on the
ground says a complete another thing, and it is as simple as that there is no real Iraqi e-government. Ovid-19
pandemic proves that Iraqi society have the capabilities to use the online services. The main reason for this
weakness is the fail of the continuous trials to adopt e-learning in Iraqi Education and Iraqi higher education
systems. Nowadays, Iraqi ministry of higher education (MOHEDSR), finally start adopting e-learning
services successfully in all Iraq higher education sector by the ministry and universities capabilities, not the
e-government supports