[UgaBYTES] Fw: October 2008 Issue of " Information Technology in Developing countries"

Wed Nov 5 11:55:50 GMT 2008

Great resource, thanks Dean

Encourage colleague who have not reviewed this to try it out.

Meddie

-----Original Message-----
From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Dean Mulozi
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 7:23 AM
To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
Subject: [UgaBYTES] Fw: October 2008 Issue of " Information Technology in Developing countries"

Dear all,
The follwing may be intersting to you.

Regards

Dean Mulozi,
Lusaka, Zambia.

> From: IFIP Newsletter <ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in>
> Subject: October 2008 Issue of " Information Technology in Developing countries"
> To: chris_fwa at yahoo.com, cmaitland at ist.psu.edu,
> cr_4_agriculture at yahoo.com, crdas at yahoo.com, cscarone at hotmail.com,
> Csekaran at worldbank.org, dadalo at tiscali.it, darbarik at yahoo.com,
> Dbhatia at worldbank.org, dc_misra at hotmail.com, deanmulozi at yahoo.com,
> delaboni at yahoo.com, dev_kamal at hotmail.com, dharamgaon at yahoo.co.in
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 11:27 PM Dear Subscriber,
>
> Warm Greetings! The October 2008 issue of 'Information Technology in
> Developing Countries' is now available at:
> http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/current.htm
>
> The current issue of Information Technology in Developing Countries
> includes articles that discuss why genuinely successful, high-yield
> e-government projects are so difficult to find and even more difficult
> to measure, the state of e-government implementation in Malaysia, how
> Web 2.0 is changing the basic character of the Internet, a few
> e-government initiatives in India, a book review, and announcements of
> forthcoming conferences. The first article "Pursuing Truly Successful
> e-Government Projects:
> Mission Impossible?" by Stephen Ruth and Robert Schware provides
> examples of three e-government projects that have succeeded because
> they have addressed policy issues upfront and/or the two crucial
> questions that project stakeholders eventually ask: "What's in it for
> me?" or "Why should I be involved in this e-government project?" The
> article discusses these issues in the light of three cases - Nangi
> Village Outreach (Nepal), Nemmadi (Karnataka, India), and MK Connects
> (Macedonia) - in which the beneficiaries are citizens who are assisted
> by the systems, and not by bureaucrats or faceless agencies.
>
> The second article "E-government in Malaysia: Barriers and Progress"
> by Sharifah Alhabshi attempts to explore the nature of e-Government
> challenges and achievements from within Malaysia, and to review and
> understand disparate e-Government rankings given to Malaysia in three
> surveys undertaken by international institutions, the United Nations,
> Brown University and Waseda University. The research involved web
> surveys carried out on 71 agencies within Malaysia's 281 ministries,
> and exploration of the objectives and the criteria used by each of the
> institutions in producing e-Government rankings through comparison of
> the three institutions' rankings and review of the rankings from a
> human and economic development perspective. Amit Ranjan's article on
> "How Web 2.0 is Changing the Basic Character of the Internet" talks
> about the evolution of the Internet, which started as a means of
> sharing information for academic and military purposes, soon became
> the backbone of business communications, and is now getting social -
> people have taken center stage and technology has taken a backseat.
> The author points out that Web 1.0 focused more on technology while
> Web 2.0 is far more humane - it focuses on people and how they can
> collectively influence its developing character. The author
> illustrates how this next wave of the Internet is being put to new
> uses like development of social networking websites, content-centric
> communities etc.
>
> Kiringai Kamau's article "Grassroots Involvement for Real ICT Impact"
> demonstrates the immense potential of locally developed data
> processing solutions for raw data collection and the eventual
> processing of the same for sustainable development. This article is
> followed by Kris Dev's case on the "Biometric Smart Card (BSC)"
> initiative. It describes the work done by the author and his team in
> the states of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh in the field of biometrics for
> unique identification and tracking of benefits extended to poor
> citizens under the Work for Food Programme and National Rural
> Employment Guarantee (NREGP) Scheme. Dr. Monisha Borthakur's article
> on the Common Services Centers (CSC) Scheme describes the
> implementation status of the CSC scheme in India. The CSC Scheme aims
> to improve the quality of delivery of services to citizens especially
> those living in rural areas. Over 14,000 CSCs across ten states have
> been rolled out till date. Attempts have also been made to bring
> together all stakeholders, including the service providers (SCAs), to
> enable drawing up of the CSC roadmap ahead keeping in mind the
> challenges faced by the first mover SCAs. The next article features
> the "Base of the Pyramid (BoP) Program" that has been initiated in
> Karnataka, India to promote idea generation, concept development,
> research, community development, rural linkages and student exchange
> programs.
>
> Elena Maceviciute's book review on "Change Management in Information
> Services" gives an overview of the concepts, approaches and cases
> discussed in the book.
> Conference announcements include the annual eASiA conference to be
> held in November in Malaysia. This three-day international event will
> include active conferencing; networking and focus on five emerging
> application domains of ICT for Development - e-Government, ICT in
> Education, Asian Telecentre Forum, ICT enabled Health services and
> Mobile application and services for development. Other conferences
> included in the current issue are the International Conference on
> E-government and E-governance to be held in Turkey in 2009, the 3rd
> International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies
> and Development
> (ICTD2009) to be held in Qatar, and the 10th IFIP Conference whose
> theme is "Assessing the Contribution of ICT to Development Goals".
>
>
> We hope you will find this issue interesting and we look forward to
> receiving your feedback on the same. We welcome your contributions for
> the forthcoming issue of the IFIP WG
> 9.4 Newsletter. Interested contributors are requested to refer to the
> guidelines for authors available at:
> http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/guidelines.htm or may mail us at:
> ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in
>
> The October 2008 Issue can be directly accessed at:
> http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/oct2008/oct2008.htm. A
> downloadable PDF version of this Issue is also available on our
> website (URL:
> http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/oct2008/oct2008.pdf) to ease
> access and facilitate printing.
>
> With Best Regards,
> Editorial Team, IFIP WG 9.4 Newsletter.
>
> Editorial office:
> Centre for Electronic Governance,
> Indian Institute of Management,
> Ahmedabad - 380 015, India
> Tel.: +91 79 6632 4128
> URL: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/wg.htm

_______________________________________________
ugabytes mailing list
ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
http://lists.ugabytes.org/mailman/listinfo/ugabytes_lists.ugabytes.org