Abstract—Although IT offers promising improvements in public sector efficiency, there is a consensus that these cannot be realised until IT tools become widely spread and used. This research in progress aims to improve the utilisation of IT in the context of the Yemeni public sector by identifying the factors that influence IT user’s acceptance. The Research proposes a model based on the Technology Acceptance Model with some added factors that are believed to have a significant influence in the context being studied, such as: perceived personal benefit, organisational culture and gender.

Index Terms—Information technology, public sector, technology acceptance model, ministry of social affairs and labour.

The authors are with the Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia (e-mail: esmat_wahdain@ yahoo.com, mnazir@utm.my, hidayati@utm.my).

Cite:Esmat Abdulmajid Wahdain, Mohammad Nazir Ahmad, and Nor Hidayati Zakaria, "Using TAM to Study the User Acceptance of IT in the Yemeni Public Sector," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 160-165, 2014.