Why do public sector IT projects fail

Adoption of Information Technology (IT) can make a valuable contribution to development of public sector organisation. A reasonable size of budget is allocated every year to IT projects in public sector in both developed and developing countries. However, at present, the majority of public sector IT projects fails either totally or partially. The percentage of failure is even more in developing countries. A number of research studies have been conducted to identify the reasons of failures of IT projects in private and public sector in developed countries. However, very little work of similar type has been done in developing countries. In Pakistan also no such research work has been published. Based on case study of three projects, this paper studies the reasons leading to failure of IT projects initiatives in public sector of Pakistan.