During the past years, the realization of e-government-driven benefits was at the center of attention at various public administrations. The paper presented here outlines a processdriven approach for the evaluation of technology-driven performance impacts based on reference measures. From the German perspective, existing concepts of performance evaluation were concretized for the case scenario ...

In 2006 University of Wollongong researchers were invited to participate in an Economic Gardening project being implemented in the New South Wales local government areas of Shellharbour and Kiama. This paper outlines the history of the “economic gardening” concept and the challenges for participant selection and training. We propose an alterative approach to that undertaken by previous economic...

OBJECTIVES Clinical trials provide 'gold standard' evidence for policy, but insufficient locally relevant trials are conducted in low-income and middle-income countries. Local investigator-initiated trials could generate highly relevant data for national governments, but information is lacking on how to facilitate them. We aimed to identify barriers and enablers to investigator-initiated trials...

Over the past 10 years, there has been a proliferation of healthcare performance reports both nationally and internationally. This trend seems to be driven by the need for accountability to governments as well as the general public. The need for greater evidence-based care and management of health systems has pushed us to produce and examine data in ways that were not expected in the past. The ...

852 www.thelancet.com Vol 384 September 6, 2014 lower than the highest GNI-graduating country. Therefore, it is important for the public health community to aggressively use several strategies to address the underlying defi ciencies in the vaccine market. These strategies include, as Berkley notes, demand forecasting and pooled procurement, but they also must include collaboration between agenc...

Between 2007 and 2013, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) introduced major national policy reforms to improve quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) (Brennan and Adamson, 2014). By analysing policy documents underpinning the COAG reforms for early childhood, this article contends these reforms have been so far-reaching that, conceivably, they could have a lasting impact ...

Medical tourism is a growing phenomenon with policy implications for health systems, particularly of destination countries. Private actors and governments in Southeast Asia are promoting the medical tourist industry, but the potential impact on health systems, particularly in terms of equity in access and availability for local consumers, is unclear. This article presents a conceptual framework...

The benefits, which can also be considered as incentives or drivers, of implementing mGovernment services, include increasing efficiency of government processing (back office) and services (front office). The focus of this study is on efficiency evaluation of mobile services (mServices) rendered by mGovernment, regardless of the type of the end-user, aimed at producing a simplified methodology ...