EU plans immigration exchange
A cross border data sharing system will warn EU governments on immigration patterns
Blogging patient opinions
A new website has been launched in South Yorkshire, UK, for NHS patients to post their experiences of the health service
Global e-government 19 January
Over the last two years the Government has more than doubled its usage of freelance IT consultants, making it the largest employer of IT contractors in the country.
Online child safety: Home Office launches new promotion campaign
The Home Office in the United Kingdom, has launched a
Kalashnikov Theory of e-Government
[This article was published in the January 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
If eGovernment is to be promoted as a tool for progressive change across the Middle East then it has to be in a sound local context and with the financial and technical support that will take modest projects to the point of being able to deliver simple, useful shared, services for the many. This is the Kalashnikov theory of e-government.
For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule
A battery gives the urnas, as these portable electronic voting machines are called, a backup in case of power failures. Voters punch in several digits to vote — and are no longer obliged to write out a candidate’s name, a baffling chore for borderline literates.
User attitudes to e-Government citizen services in Europe
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Good governance rests on the pillars of knowledge where information should be acquired and used strategically for public purposes. e-Governance helps in dissemination of useful governance information, which already exists in the public domain into the wider public domain through the use of ICT.
Journey of Telecentres
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Telecentres have been hailed as the solution to development problems in all the countries of the world because of their ability to provide desperately needed access to knowledge and information with the help of ICTs.
‘Rights’ to information, or & ‘obligations’to society?
[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Over the past three years Roger Longhorn, Max Craglia and I have been trying to understand the emotions and principles of the debates surrounding rights of access to information, particularly to information produced by government (PSI
National Workshop on Right to Information Act 2005, New Delhi, India
[This article was published in the June 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Introduction On 12 May 2005, the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliamment) finally passed the keenly awaited Right to Information Bill.
