EU welcomes more autonomy to ICANN

The US government’s decision to give more autonomy to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was welcomed by the European Commission this week.

Basic computer literacy for Namibian teachers

Namibia intends having 12 000 teachers trained in basic computer literacy and 350 000 learners using computers for half an hour a week by 2010, according to goals set down by the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) steering committee.

Potholes in the free-way

[This article was published in the December 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Asia-Pacific countries are adopting public sector reforms to better compete in the regional and global economy by strengthening markets and individual choice and in turn economic growth and poverty reduction.

‘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

Assessing citizen centricity of government websites

[This article was published in the July 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

As the Internet is gradually transforming the social and economic fabric of our communities, Government agencies worldwide are evolving into “e-governments” to enable a better and broader access to government services.

e-Health Repository

[This article was published in the May 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

There are sufficient variations on the meaning of the term e-Health and a recent publication
of a systematic review of published definitions identified 51 definitions.