This paper considers electronic governmental activities f rom a business perspective resulting in a so-called governmental value chain model. This model aims to support practitioners f o r better understanding and realisation of joint organisational and information system innovations in the public sector. It consists of a legislative, administrative and juridical function embracing three fields...

A number of governments have started to publish their statistical data online. Some of them are adhering to Linked Data principles, others are using other standards which often can be transformed in order to be published as Linked Data. RDF vocabularies, such as SCOVO (Statistical Core Vocabulary) are being used for publishing the data. Many of the current translations of the statistical data a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Government of Jamaica, through the Ministry of Health and other ministries, assisted by international funding agencies and members of non-governmental organizations, has diligently led the charge to reduce the incidence ofHIV and AIDS in Jamaica. Yet, the continued escalation in the infection rate attested to the need for education towards the reduction of stigma and ...

Accreditation, as an approach to quality assurance and improvement, has a hundred-year history in the United States. Other countries have started to establish such systems in the past twenty years. Recently, we have witnessed numerous discussions and some practical steps toward establishing accreditation systems in Iran. A major practical challenge for such newer accreditation systems is that...

While the subject of child dropout has been heavily contested in education studies in the last few decades in developing countries like Zimbabwe, the monumental studies on the concept have emphasised child’s (both boy and girl child) right to education. Insignificant attention has been devoted to examining the causes and effects of girl child dropouts in secondary schools especially in the coun...