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Article | Reducing Corruption in African Developing Countries: The Relevance of E-Governance
Article / Working Paper, E-Governance, Academic/Think TankThis paper presents a review on reducing corruption in African developing countries, to lessen the discretion of officials, and increase transparency. While it is true that ICT eliminates many opportunities for corruption for those who do not understand the new technology fully, however, it opens up new corruption vistas for those who understand the new systems well enough to manipulate them....
Research: Availability and adoption of m-Government services in South Africa
Article / Working Paper, E-Governance, Academic/Think TankThe adoption and penetration of mobile phones has been on the rise in South Africa with the increased cellular network coverage being a key driver to this growth. It has also fast tracked its usability in a number of areas such as education, health and payments, yet its adoption for m-Government has not experienced the same level of growth. Although m-Government is a prospect for South Africa,...
E-Governance Assessment Frameworks (EAF ) Version 2.0
Asia and the Pacific, E-Governance, Framework, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Prof. T. P. Rama Rao, Prof. V. Venkata Rao, Prof. S. C. Bhatnagar & Shri. J. Satyanarayana. The Department of Information Technology, Government of India, has created a rational framework for assessing e-Governance projects on various dimensions. The objective for the proposed Framework is to: To create an assessment framework that make it possible to evaluate...
A Manager's Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation (eGovernment Resource Centre)
Civil Society, E-Governance, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Academic/Think TankThe Obama administration's Open Government Initiative is now three years old. But is it making a difference? By Tina Nabatchi, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, IBM Center for the Business of Government, Fostering Transparency and Democracy Series, 2012. "... This report is designed to assist public managers with the evaluation of their citizen participation projects and programs...
Turkish Local e-Governments: A Longitudinal Study
Arab States, Article / Working Paper, E-Governance, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankThis article is based on a longitudinal exploratory study of the Turkish local e-governments between September 2005 and December 2006. 3,228 Turkish local governments constitute the sampling framework of this paper. The first part of the study, which took place in 2005, indicated that only 969 authorities were online. But the second part, issued at the end of 2006, showed that...
The productivity of the public sector in OECD countries: eGovernment as driver of efficiency and efficacy
Article / Working Paper, E-Governance, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankThis article aims at illustrating a theoretical approach to the analysis of the dynamics of productivity in the public sector, and at presenting a preliminary application of it to the estimation of the impact on productivity of the recent development of e-Government processes in a number of OECD countries. The analysis serves a twofold purpose: at the microeconomic level, we set out to...
Reducing Risks of Reporting Corruption: Lessons from an Online Reporting System in Kenya
Africa, Civil Society, Conflict, Corruption, E-Governance, Human Rights, Media, Public Administration, Report, Academic/Think TankThis Practice Insight (2010:4) from the U4 Anti Corruption Resource Centre notes that Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Commission has adapted an online tool to improve the quality and quantity of reports it receives about corruption, providing anonymous communication with the informants. While clearly an important channel for leads on grand corruption cases especially, the implementation...
IT Governance Metrics Measurement and Benchmarking Best Practice Workbook
Book, E-Governance, Academic/Think TankThis best practice workbook offers set of tools to deal with challenging leadership issues. It is rare to uncover a detailed and pragmatic guide to a study area subjected to such mis-understanding and debate. Governance in general and IT governance in particular is often left to the realm of politics, personality and perception. This book takes a look at how to make IT governance matter and...
Open Budget Assessment Framework
E-Governance, Questionnaire , Academic/Think Tank“It is intended to provide citizens, legislators, and civil society advocates with the comprehensive and practical information needed to gauge a government’s commitment to budget transparency and accountability.” Armed with this kind of information, national stakeholders can identify meaningful budget reforms to combat corruption. The first Open Budget Survey was...