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Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Papers written in the English language	Papers not written in the English language
Papers published from 2000 to 2024	Papers publish before 2000
Peer-reviewed journal articles	Conference papers, books, book chapters, reports, editorials
Papers available online with full-text access	Papers with no full-text access
Papers that address influential factors of digital technology adoption by local governments	Papers that address technology adoption but not in the local governments’ context
Papers that address influential factors of digital technology adoption by local governments for citizen collaboration	Papers that address technology adoption by local governments but not for collaborative purposes
Articles that evaluate the pre-adoption, pre-implementation, and testing phase or articles that assess factors that influenced the adoption if the technology is already adopted	Articles that evaluate post-adoption, post-adoption effects and post-implementation effects of technology

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Papers written in the English language	Papers not written in the English language
Papers published from 2000 to 2024	Papers publish before 2000
Peer-reviewed journal articles	Conference papers, books, book chapters, reports, editorials
Papers available online with full-text access	Papers with no full-text access
Papers that address influential factors of digital technology adoption by local governments	Papers that address technology adoption but not in the local governments’ context
Papers that address influential factors of digital technology adoption by local governments for citizen collaboration	Papers that address technology adoption by local governments but not for collaborative purposes
Articles that evaluate the pre-adoption, pre-implementation, and testing phase or articles that assess factors that influenced the adoption if the technology is already adopted	Articles that evaluate post-adoption, post-adoption effects and post-implementation effects of technology

Source: Authors’ construct