Review of: "Analyzing the nexus between Spatial Data Infrastructure Development and e-Government"

Overall commentThe author tries to link SDI development with e-Government services and propagates the idea that e-Government portal can act as a catalyst for the development of Zimbabwe NSDI.However, it is to be noted that most of the government services and products are usually not spatial-data driven services (see Figure 1, page 5).It should be noted that only a few of these services e.g.land administration could require spatial data.Therefore the study recommendation "that the development of spatial data infrastructures for e-Government services can allow geospatial data to be collected and reused multiple times" is not a conclusive reflection.When the author provides the Official Web Portal for the Government of Zimbabwe and then says the foundation for the development of SDI has already been laid, because the web portal has interactive map (Figure 3), he misses this point: that the map in the website is a Google embedded map and cannot be said to be the foundation of an SDI.The paper generally lack originality and the author fails to show the nexus between SDI and e-government.For example, there is little difference between what the author has presented with an already published paper of PARADZAYI, (2005).1.0