Local Governance And Icts In Africa

Author : Gianluca Misuraca
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781552503690

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E-Governance in Africa, from Theory to Action by Gianluca Misuraca Pdf

Integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into governance processes can greatly enhance the delivery of public services to all citizens. ICT integration will not only improve the performance of governance systems, it will also transform relationships amongst stakeholders, thereby influencing policymaking processes and regulatory frameworks. In the developing world, however, the potential of ICTs for effective governance remains largely unexplored and unexploited. This book presents the context, theory, and current thinking on the interaction between ICTs and local governance, particularly in Africa. It discusses the shift from OC governmentOCO to OC e-governance, OCO describes the role of local-level authorities, and presents the benefits and limitations of introducing ICTs in government operations. Case studies from Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda describe local governance/ICTs projects executed by civil society organizations, academic institutions, and government authorities. Drawing from the findings in these case studies and from the introductory research and original conceptual framework, the book presents a series of conclusions and recommendation on the future of effective ICTs use for better governance and improved economic development at the local level. This book will be of interest to professionals, practitioners, and policy advisors at local and national government levels in developing countries (particularly in Africa); international organizations staff, bilateral aid agencies, international financial institutions, civil society organizations, and private sector; researchers, academics, students, and professors of public administration and governance in Africa and throughout the world."

Author : Timothy Mwololo Waema,T. M. Waema,Edith Ofwona Adera
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857490322

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Local Governance and ICTs in Africa by Timothy Mwololo Waema,T. M. Waema,Edith Ofwona Adera Pdf

With case studies from nine African countries this book provides a rich understanding of the status of e-governance in Africa, assesses the effects of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on local governance, and offers a roadmap for policymakers, decision-makers, and practitioners to implement and evaluate their own e-local governance projects. With governance high on the agenda in Africa, many governments are using ICTs to introduce innovations in their structure, practices, and capacities as well as in the ways they use human capital and deliver services to citizens. However, the potential for e-governance in Africa remains largely unexploited. Progress requires infrastructure improvement, the enactment of appropriate laws and policies, and capacity and content development. This book addresses the lack of evidence on ICTs in local governance in Africa and provides an important collection of studies and analyses on the transformative potential of ICT.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:642480850

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E-Governance in Africa: From Theory to Action by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588261735

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Local Governance in Africa by Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch Pdf

An exploration of why some decentralization reforms have led to viable systems of local governance in Africa, while others have failed. It outlines the key issues involved, provides historical context, and identifies the factors that have encouraged or discouraged success.

Author : Leo van den Berg,Andre van der Meer,Willem van Winden,Paulus Woets
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351159142

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E-Governance in European and South African Cities by Leo van den Berg,Andre van der Meer,Willem van Winden,Paulus Woets Pdf

Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy. This has resulted in a wave of urban ICT strategies and policies, such as the adoption of ICTs within the city administration itself, projects that facilitate access to ICTs by weaker social groups and policies to improve the urban electronic infrastructure. By comparing eight cities - Barcelona, Cape Town, Eindhoven, Johnnesburg, Manchester, Tampere, the Hague and Venice - this book examines a range of innovative urban e-governance strategies and develops a framework of analysis that permits a common approach. Throughout the book, a distinction is made between access policies (aimed at improving access to ICTs for all citizens), content policies (directed to improve the use of ICTs in the city administration and semi-public domains) and infrastructure policies (to improve the provision of broadband infrastructure). For each of the cities, e-strategies and policies are critically reviewed and compared. The book reveals that urban e-strategies have evolved from an internal and technology-centred orientation to a more outward-looking approach.

Author : Philip Mawhood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017407789

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Local Government in the Third World by Philip Mawhood Pdf

Author : Silva, Carlos Nunes
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615209309

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Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring by Silva, Carlos Nunes Pdf

"This book provides relevant theoretical perspectives on the use of ICT in Urban Planning as well as an updated account of the most recent developments in the practice of e-planning in different regions of the world"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Blessing M. Maumbe,Julius Okello
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466636088

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Technology, Sustainability, and Rural Development in Africa by Blessing M. Maumbe,Julius Okello Pdf

"This book provides research, analytical methods, techniques, and development policies in ICT adoption and diffusion in Africa and around the globe, highlighting the major trends in ICT applications and rural development"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Laurent Elder,Heloise Emdon,Richard Fuchs,Ben Petrazzini
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780857281241

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Connecting ICTs to Development by Laurent Elder,Heloise Emdon,Richard Fuchs,Ben Petrazzini Pdf

Over the past two decades, projects supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have critically examined the ways in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can be used to improve learning, empower the disenfranchised, generate income opportunities for the poor, and facilitate access to healthcare in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Considering that most development institutions and governments are currently attempting to integrate ICTs into their practices, it is an opportune time to reflect on the research findings that have emerged from IDRC’s work and research in this area. “Connecting ICTs to Development” discusses programmatic investments made by IDRC in a wide variety of areas related to ICTs, including infrastructure, access, regulations, health, governance, education, livelihoods, social inclusion, technical innovation, intellectual property rights and evaluation. Each chapter in this book analyzes the ways in which research findings from IDRC-supported projects have contributed to an evolution of thinking, and discusses successes and challenges in using ICTs as tools to address development issues. The volume also presents key lessons learned from ICT4D programming and recommendations for future work.

Author : Akampurira Abraham
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783954896332

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Decentralisation, Local Governance and Development: An Aspect of Development by Akampurira Abraham Pdf

Communities need a holistic approach to address the problems that affect the people at the grass root. The planning of the direct beneficiaries involves decentralization in order to allow the lower power centers to widely take part in the development of society. Concerns of the grass root people form the need for decentralization and local governance. People’s involvement in the planning on the village level and all local government units, makes the identification and solving of the problem easier. High participatory levels of all the people especially the marginalized, encourages innovation to source for the appropriate solutions to the common problems that face society. It therefore calls a decentralized system that caters for the voters’ preferences while providing for their services. The people’s concerns call for local planning and the transfer of power to the public so that services are brought nearer to the people. This study will cover the aspects of local government and decentralization such as good governance, democratization, civil society, deconcentration, devolution and delegation, and its relation to the development of societies.

Author : Abraham R. Matamanda,James Chakwizira,Kudzai Chatiza,Verna Nel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031498572

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Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa by Abraham R. Matamanda,James Chakwizira,Kudzai Chatiza,Verna Nel Pdf

This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the changing roles of the cities within the national space economy. It fills the gap in the literature on secondary cities with original case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The authors are all African scholars, working and living in the region with intimate knowledge of the settings they describe. The book is critical as it includes such regional case studies of different secondary cities in Southern Africa but also because of it’s multidisciplinarity: it contains substantive and pertinent issues such as climate change, disaster management, local economic development, and basic services delivery. It considers diverse environments, yet with similar challenges that could provide useful policy and governance proposals for other cities.

Author : Dele Olowu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000009629506

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African Local Governments as Instruments of Economic and Social Development by Dele Olowu Pdf

Author : Margaret Wanjiku Ngunjiri
Publisher : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789176716281

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Citizen participation in local governance in Africa by Margaret Wanjiku Ngunjiri Pdf

Local governance comprises a set of institutions, mechanisms and processes through which citizens and their groups can articulate their interests and needs and mediate their differences. The participation of citizens in governance is one of the underlying components of democracy. Engaging citizens in the act of governance engenders transparency, improves accountability and public resource management and brings about good policy outcomes, development and the social well-being of citizens. When done effectively, it encourages inclusiveness and cohesiveness, speeds up problem-solving through community initiatives and generally improves the effectiveness of local authorities. This Report is an exploratory study which adopted various strategies to try to understand the issues, perspectives and results from citizen participation in local governance across various countries and regions in Africa.

Author : Knud Erik Skouby,Williams Idongesit
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000797350

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The African Mobile Story by Knud Erik Skouby,Williams Idongesit Pdf

Africa and especially Sub-Saharan Africa has during the past decade witnessed one of the fastest growing markets in mobile communication. This growth is recognized to have played a pivotal role in Africa’s socio-economic development. It has had a huge impact on residential living patterns; on business networks and models; and on government services and income sources. The mobile industry has contributed more to economic growth than in any other comparable region globally introducing innovative, broadly used applications. Technical topics discussed in the book include:• Mobile Development in Sub-Saharan Africa;• Telecom Liberalization in Africa;• Role of Mobile in Socio-economic Development;• Mobile Applications in specific sectors;• Security in African Mobile;• Role of Prepaid in Africa

Author : Fredrick. M. Nafukho,Helen M. A. Muyia,Beverly Irby
Publisher : IAP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623967437

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Governance and Transformations of Universities in Africa by Fredrick. M. Nafukho,Helen M. A. Muyia,Beverly Irby Pdf

While universities world over are undergoing reforms and change, in the case of African universities as illustrated in this book, the reforms and changes are profound and can best be described as transformative. This book is unique in many ways, which makes it extraordinary. First, unlike other books that have examined issues on higher education in Africa from externalist positions, the contributors to this book are scholars who have been educated, are currently teaching in African universities or have taught in African universities. The book specifically focuses on transformations in the governance of African universities and its implications on equity, entrepreneurship, innovation, quality assurance, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and reform issues in higher education in Africa. The book presents pertinent research on governance in African universities in an experiential and empirical manner. The contributors of the book chapters include individuals actively involved in teaching, researching and governance of higher education institutions in Africa. The chapters are based on empirical data, including review of relevant literature. The book also recognizes that university governance is more than just crisis in financial or economic issues, but includes best management practices, shared governance, meaningful reforms, strategic planning, consultation, transparency and accountability, client (students, lecturers, parents and the public) satisfaction, as well as the role of the university in development. The contributions take cognizance of the fact that governance as a concept is facing fundamental changes in the context of global knowledge economy, and African local conditions. Contributors also take cognizance of the fact that one important source of change in Africa has been the accelerating speed of scientific and technological advancement in learning at universities where lifelong learning programs, adult learning programs, distance and online learning are relatively new. The chapters are also sensitive to new changes in gender, demographical, technological, education reforms, social and economic transformations in the governance of African universities. The book is basically an academic book for use by undergraduates and graduate students at universities, policy makers and formulators in African ministries of Education; supra national organizations, foreign organizations working in Africa, NGOs and CBOs as well as development stakeholders, and community organizers.