E-Government or digital government is a tool for governments to use the most innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) through digital networks with convenient access to government information and services. “E-Governance” is the application of ICT for delivering government services, exchange of information and communication between government and people. Government services a...

information accompanied with the technology supporting it is valuable asset in many organizations. as organizations are highly depended on it, implementing it effective governance is necessary for them. it governance areas affecting business are strategic alignment, risk management, performance management, resource management and providing value.  successful performances need a mix of structure...

Multiple legal departments must coordinate for internet service providers to meet their data security protection duties. The requirement of ISPs necessitates the coordination multiple entities. Observing obligations Internet through lens a single department or regulatory regulation is skewed. A better strategy concentrate on issue at hand and think broadly. By constructing comprehensive multi-l...

Starting from a resilience assessment of Harare's water supply, the system interactions city’s management arrangements are explored through series causal loop diagrams. These based on economic, physical, commercial, environmental, and social subsystems reinforcing balancing loops that influence key variables interest in each identified. The analysis identifies shortcomings including weak provid...

Abstract With louder demands in public discourse for action on adaptation to climate change, efforts improve the provision and use of information services (CIS) are also gaining prominence. Drawing literature about uptake CIS risk assessment adaptation, plus our own practical experiences, this Essay examines modes user-provider interaction CIS. By employing a customer-tailor analogy, three over...

there are different approaches to business model categorization. [5] in a point of view, the e-business model patterns can be categorized to content provider, direct to customer (d2c), full-service provider, intermediary, shared infrastructure, value net integrator, virtual community, and whole of enterprise.

1 Introduction The following literature is an interim reflection of the collated research examining the role of collaborative governance and planning in addressing the divisions of a contested city, such as Belfast. This interim paper is structured in three main sections: a literature review exploring the aspect of collaborative planning and governance; an interim analysis of semi-structured in...

Recent studies on buying services have shown that service specifications and agreements present an ongoing process in which service definitions evolve through buyer-service provider interactions. In the case of professional ICT services this interaction process is far from clear. Many organizations have been confronted with failing ICT projects, financial losses, and less-useable software and s...

Jenny McLean and Michael Walsh have distilled well the key lessons of the events at King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEMH). To some extent KEMH is unique: the only tertiary provider of obstetric services in Perth, the world’s most isolated city. It is thus easy to think of the KEMH experience as an isolated one and engage in our own form of shaming and blaming by finger pointing at that hospital ...

BACKGROUND Vast quantities of electronic data are collected about patients and service users as they pass through health service and other public sector organisations, and these data present enormous potential for research and policy evaluation. The Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) aims to realise the potential of electronically-held, person-based, routinely-collected data to conduct and...