Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Transforming Government and Empowering Communities : The Sri Lankan Experience with e-DevelopmentThis book focuses on the institutional
 innovations needed to lead the diffusion of the new
 information and communication technology (ICT) that can help
 transform developing economies into knowledge economies and
 information societies. It shows that developing e-leadership
 institutions is a long-term process, fraught with
 uncertainties, but a process that remains at the heart of
 implementing ICT-enabled development strategies. It focuses
 on improving governance and the delivery of public services,
 bridging economic divides, promoting social inclusion, and
 drastically cutting transaction costs across the economy. It
 seeks to exploit new sources of growth, employment, and
 competitiveness by promoting the ICT and IT-enabled services
 industries and the use of ICT by small enterprises to
 network and compete. This book draws on the experience of
 Sri Lanka to explore what is involved in moving from vision
 to implementation of a comprehensive e-development
 strategy-the e-Sri Lanka program. The focus is on building
 local e-leadership institutions to drive this process and
 leveraging ICT to transform government and empower
 communities through e-government and e-society. Finally, to
 allow sound selection and management of projects,
 particularly in a national context, it is critical that the
 program be free from pressure by government, private
 companies, or others that may seek to use the program to
 exercise their influence.
-
Putting Saudi Arabia on the 'e-Map' : Note on United Nations Public Administration Network e-Government IndexE-mapping covers various layers of data
 and indicators useful to achieve the above-mentioned
 objectives. The concept is hence both of an analytical and
 operational nature, and serves domestic as well as external
 purposes. This report focuses on the UNPAN e-government
 index, and constitutes the fourth deliverable of the
 e-mapping activity offered by the World Bank in the context
 of its cooperation activity with the Ministry of
 Communications and Information Technology (MOCIT). The text
 of the report is divided in four main sections: the
 introduction sets up the context and rationale against which
 the e-mapping activity has been designed for Saudi Arabia,
 and how the UNPAN e-government index fits in it; section two
 provides some background and methodological consideration
 regarding the importance of e-government efforts in Saudi
 Arabia, and the value of tracking such efforts through an
 index such as UNPAN's e-government index; section three
 offers a direct analysis of Saudi Arabia's past and
 current rankings in the UNPAN e-government index, including
 the identification of gaps (e.g. for data) and possible
 recommendations to improve the country's ranking in the
 future; and finally, section four contains a summary of
 findings and recommendations for future action.
-
Sierra Leone - Public Expenditure Review : From Post-Conflict Recovery to Sustained GrowthThis Public Expenditure Review is to
 assist the Government of Sierra Leone in repositioning
 itself for sustained growth and poverty reduction in the
 long-run as opposed to the short-term expediencies needed
 during the present post-conflict phase. The report focuses
 on the period 2001-2003 for history and 2004-2006 for the
 future. A review of older historical data at the aggregate
 level is done in the macroeconomic section for the period
 1998-2003 in order to demonstrate the contrast between the
 war and post-war years. The report covers the fiscal
 policies of Government in aggregate and goes deeper for
 three sectors: security, agriculture and education. All
 three are critical to growth and poverty reduction. It also
 proposes a number of changes in the budget process. It
 reviews the budgets and capacity of the security service
 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). The maintenance
 of security is fundamental: without it, there is little
 incentive to invest for future growth. The report examines
 the budgets and capacities of the agricultural MDAs.
 Finding ways to increase agricultural growth is equally
 critical, especially since the majority of the population
 still lives in rural areas. The education sector is also
 examined in depth, due to its central contributions to the
 long-run productivity of the workforce - and because of its
 large impact on the fiscal stance of Government.