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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"E-Governance"”.
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Valutazione ambientale strategica e governance territoriale: metodologie e procedure
The concepts of governance and sustainable development on which the thesis is based, are present in the literature with various meanings and are often misused in everyday language, so as to be regarded by many as words full of rhetoric, ambiguous, devoid of any real content, used to express …
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Information Sharing, Transparency, and E-Governance Among County Government Offices in Southeastern Michigan
<p>The Internet has given rise to the availability of information at our fingertips. While the public, particularly consumers, are more commonly described as being the leading users and beneficiaries of electronic information services, businesses and governments are also players in the arena for …
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Identifying socio-cultural determinants to access : implications for e-governance in the water & sanitation sector
… the City of Cape Town has promoted a number of e-Governance initiatives to streamline the process of collecting information from users of water and sanitation services. Among these initiatives is an SMS based fault reporting system, which was envisioned as an inexpensive method for users to easily …
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The impact of cultural and social factors on the success of e-governance systems in Kuwait.
… the nature of adoption and accessibility of e-governance in Kuwait. A dual-methods approach integrating interviews (22) and focus group discussions (4) was used. Findings reveal that low levels of public awareness, digital literacy gaps, and institutional mistrust hinder engagement, …
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Can e-governance aid young people in indigent communities gain access to higher education: Analysis from an action-research project in OR Tambo District
The central theme of this thesis is to establish the effectiveness and the role that ICTs have in improving the livelihood of people in rural areas. Its intent is to demonstrate how the use of ICTs, in particular via the e-government approach can help to alleviate unemployment and poverty by …
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Assessing the Role of ICT Infrastructure in Enhancing EGovernance for Effective Service Delivery in Thulamela Local Municipality
… in enabling or hindering effective e-governance within Thulamela Local Municipality. It also seeks to propose practical, context-specific solutions to improve ICT infrastructure and support the successful implementation of e-governance initiatives. Despite the growing global emphasis …
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Taking shape: Implementing citizen-centric local digital government in Western Australia
… services online) and outcomes-focused e-governance (developing ICT-enabled citizen interaction and participation) has been proposed as the next step in online interaction between government and its citizens. Local government is still coming to grips with providing a mechanism for …
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Structured Information Flow (SIF) Framework for Automating End-to-End Information Flow for Large Organizations
… such as e-commerce, e-education, e-training, e-governance, etc. In this body of work, we formally define the SIF framework using state transformation language and a visual representation scheme specifically developed for this purpose. We also define the Information Interfaces, which are the …
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Internet control and authoritarianism : regimes defying political change
… and have utilized the technology to improve governance and control of these societies. The conditions which make it possible for certain states to suppress online activism, and which in turn contributes to the strengthening of authorial control are then clearly identified and delineated. They …
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Texas State Agency Websites: A Descriptive Assessment of Attributes that Support Online Citizen Engagement
The purpose of this applied research project is to describe attributes of State of Texas agency websites that support online citizen engagement. A review of the literature informs the development of a conceptual framework comprising three descriptive categories: design, transparency, and …
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Making Bureaucracy Accountable: Three Essays on Bureaucratic Accountability in China
As accountability theories are mostly concentrated on electoral politics, government accountability remains an understudied topic in authoritarian regimes. My dissertation explores China's government accountability through three lenses. First, I examine how administrative decentralization impacts …
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Tutela, transizione ecologica e riqualificazione sostenibile del patrimonio storico della difesa. Protocolli integrati per il monitoraggio e la gestione.
… un protocollo innovativo di monitoraggio e governance del patrimonio, che consenta di applicare modelli funzionali e logistici scalabili su tutto il territorio nazionale. Il fine ultimo non è solo il miglioramento energetico degli edifici esistenti, ma l’elaborazione di un approccio che …
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Towards a Smart City Model for South African Metropolitan Municipalities : the case of Gauteng-based Metropolitan Municipalities
… stored, distributed and analysed for better city governance. Smart cities should be able to generate data continuously from a number of applications that are deployed throughout cities, such as sensors, cognitive radio technologies (5G), traffic information, e-health, IoT and environment …
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The Utopia of Cross-border Regions. Territorial transformation and Cross-Border Governance on Espace Mont-Blanc
Contains fulltext : 27435.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Experiences of Governance in the Context of Community-Based Research: Structures, Problems and Theory
Governance is a response to a recognition that traditional forms of decision-making have become inadequate to address complex societal and health problems generated by significant social and global changes (Chhotray & Stoker, 2009). The contributions of scientific and technical knowledge towards …
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Exploring, Examining, and Explaining How Participatory Governance Adds Value to Saudi Foundations’ Philanthropic Strategy
… is a mounting interest among scholars in the governance of foundations, the systems and processes concerned with ensuring the overall strategic direction of organizations. Influenced by agency and stewardship theories, an increasing number of studies address such topics as boards’ internal …