# Evaluating a Proposed E-Government Stage Model in Terms of Personal Data Protection
## 3 Assessment Methodology
### Soar  
The abbreviation for SOAR is Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results. According to its inventors, SOAR is intended to be a \"positive approach to strategic  
Figure 2: Data Flow Algorithm of Proposed Stage Model. thinking and planning that enables an organization to shape its future via collaboration, common knowledge, and a commitment to action\". Since the stage model is a strategic plan for the government to serve its stakeholders, SOAR is a very effective tool for studying e-government from the first stages to execution. The SOAR framework provides a flexible way to create and consider strategies [14]. By bringing in relevant parties, it helps planners comprehend the overall system and encourages people in charge of strategic planning to bring in parties other than top management. Citizens, governmental entities, and non-governmental communities that the government touches may all be included in these stakeholders. It is simpler to comprehend how a corporation operates and what it may develop into in the future when it is seen as a whole, and many different points of view are taken into account. SOAR first reframes vulnerabilities and threats that arise throughout strategic discussion in order to construct the strategic core of what the government organization aims to become and to ground those goals in quantifiable future results [15]. Comparing the SOAR framework to a SWOT study is not an accident. In contrast to SWOT, which focuses on both internal and external opportunities and threats, SOAR starts with a strategic inquiry employing an appreciating purpose via a discussion of the possibilities and strengths that are accessible to the organization. When strengths-based concepts turn the conventional SWOT analysis into SOAR by concentrating specifically on the factors that provide for the organization's future life and vitality, strategic planning processes are hastened. SOAR is more suitable for analyzing and planning e-government implementation because it serves as a crucial link between strengths-based theory and practice by emphasizing essential inputs, processes, and outcomes. In previous research, SWAT was mostly used by the authors to evaluate the models [15; 16], but this method is inadequate and unsuitable for evaluating this type of model since it is influenced by numerous factors, as stated on [17; 18]. Since the stage model acts as a blueprint for implementing e-government, it is necessary to focus on strengths, opportunities, and execution, rather than threats or analyses as depended on by SWAT. There is no published research for evaluating e-government stage modes using SOAR. Table 1 provides a summary of the similarities and differences between SWOT and SOAR. A purposeful shift in conversational themes from problems to opportunities and from weaknesses to strengths is encouraged by SOAR. As a result, this strategy seeks to identify, develop, and capitalize on the organization's strengths as the foundation for strategic growth. The discourse changes from the standpoint of \"we have problems that must be fixed if we are to advance\" to \"this is what we specialize in and can help us prepare ourselves for, for the future\". The SOAR framework promotes conversations and tactical possibility thinking [14; 18]. An organization may, for example, present this as an opportunity rather than a vulnerability. The SOAR can be dissected into its component pieces, with respect to the proposed e-government stage model's approach to securing personal data. \begin{table}
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**SOAR** & **SWOT** \\ \hline Focus on strength and opportunities & Equal focus on weaknesses and threats \\ Potential focus—”Be the best possible” & Competition focus—”Just be better” \\ Innovation and value generation & Incremental improvement \\ Stakeholder engagement & Top down \\ Focus on planning and implementation & Focus on analysis and planning \\ Energy creating & Energy depleting \\ Attention to results & Attention to gaps \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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