The current paper explores the implementation of
gamification in the government as a way to win back trust from the
citizens. The motivation of the citizens to interact with the public
authorities through e-government, requires a suitable gamification
framework. Octalysis framework is chosen among the available
gamification frameworks due to its motivation orientated nature.
Octalyis is used a tool for a pilot study to gamify the Greek taxation
information system TAXIS and reveals that TAXIS requires
entertaining web aspects for its long term use by the citizens.peer-reviewe
