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Samstag, 23.11.2024
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Entwicklungsländer / Developing countries

  • Door Opener eGovernment: Small Solutions with Great Potential for Developing Countries

    Simply the access to information – which is so natural in the developed world – has an immediate positive impact on development. So it is not always about huge engineering projects. It is often the small solutions originating from local problems which are better accepted. In Kenya, for instance, an electronic system was installed, with which cases of corruption could be reported anonymously. It was a novelty in the region and it was implemented with a minimum cost. Concrete contributions in terms of development policy are already in sight in telemedicine and eLearning – says Professor Dr. Tino Schuppan, Scientific Director of the Institute for eGovernment in Potsdam.

  • E-government for all

    The difficulties of selling tech to developing countries...

    I'm just back from a visit to the Middle East where I've been sharing my unorthodox 'Kalashnikov theory' of e-government at the invitation of the British Council.

    To start with, as we try to come to grips with the new challenge of 'transactional government' here in the UK, we might remember there's a wider world out there, struggling with the internet as a new medium for public sector reform.

  • e-Government plans flop

    Many electronic governance projects are failing globally due to poor planning, political interference and bureaucratic bungling, a World Bank official has said.

    "We are seeing more and more failures," Robert Schware, the bank's lead information technology specialist told delegates at a seminar on e-governance in the Indian technology hub of Bangalore.

  • E-government toolkit for developing countries now available

    A toolkit to help policy makers and senior executives in developing countries on how and when to start successfully e-government projects was recently published by UNESCO and India’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) as a contribution to promote transparency in public administrations and democratic processes.

    The toolkit, that is available on CD-ROM, aims to demystify the concepts behind e-government and strengthen the understanding of all those involved in the planning and execution of e-government projects.

  • E-Health Gains Traction in Developing Countries

    Mobile phones deliver medication reminders

    Information technology has come more slowly to the area of health care perhaps than some other fields. But the field of e-health, as it's called, is moving forward, and some of the most notable advances are happening in developing countries.

    E-health can be as complicated as a national database of medical records or as simple as a daily text message reminding you to take your medicine.

  • E-health technologies spreading in developing nations

    The use of e-health technologies, including mobile health, is spreading rapidly in low- and medium-income countries around the world, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). In part, this is because the use of mobile phones and computers is growing in these developing nations, the report said. But less than a quarter of the surveyed health programs used e-health technologies, and their reliance on private donors -- which provided nearly half of their financing -- is one factor limiting their expansion, the WHO report said.

    The data on which the report is based comes from the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI), which has been collecting information on public and private programs likely to improve health in developing countries since 2007. Due to the unreliability of government data, the WHO report focuses exclusively on private-sector programs.

  • eGovernment in developing countries: Critical Need for Human Resources (HR) function transformation

    HR functions within the public sector play a pivotal role in delivering change associated with eGovernment argues Samia Melham. Developing countries must focus on this important aspect when implementing electronic services.

    It has been now widely acknowledged that egovernment projects are usually complex and lengthy undertaking. Contemporary research on the topic is now focusing on egovernment critical success factors, which include specific organizational, structural and human resource requirements in terms of leadership, culture, knowledge and skills The egovernment team composition and set of common skills is now deemed even more critical to project success than the regulatory landscape surrounding egov initiatives - as the latter is often a consequence of the leadership, and human resource core competencies in the egovernment policy and strategy team. Most readers of public sector reform literature will see a shift from discussions on systems and processes to that of team dynamic, incentives, and civil services reform, and creation of a customer oriented culture. We will assume for the sake of this article that our readers are quite familiar with the notion of egovernment.

  • Emerging countries will adopt 5G faster than expected

    Emerging markets have always been behind developed countries in adopting the latest generation mobile networks, with a few exceptions. While it would be safe to assume that emerging markets would also lag in 5G adoption, global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research, finds that emerging countries will have faster than expected 5G subscriber adoption.

    The Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 5G subscriptions in emerging markets is estimated to be 26% between 2020 to 2030, an impressive rate considering the global CAGR of 5G subscriptions is only a slightly higher 28% in the same period.

  • Engendering E-Government in Developing Countries

    Eva Rathgeber writes about the necessity of recognising women and men having different patterns of using computers and internet and the importance of national governments employing gender analysis when launching eGovernment initiatives

    As more and more people become connected worldwide, information and communications technology (ICT) optimists anticipate that the technologies will overcome barriers of geography and distance, providing opportunities within national and across international boundaries for users to have instant access to relevant knowledge and information. Most industrialized countries and some developing countries already are providing many e-government services to their citizens, often with positive outcomes.

  • Ethiopia First to Introduce Development Gateway Foundation's International AMP

    The Government of Ethiopia is the first to deploy the Development Gateway Foundation's Aid Management Platform (AMP), a web-based information-sharing tool that helps improve the coordination and harmonization of international development aid to ensure greater results for people in developing countries.

    AMP is an e-government solution that addresses administrative challenges faced by developing country governments and their donors in tracking and reporting on international aid flows and programs. By enabling access to standardized information about aid activities within a country, it facilitates the improved planning, allocation, disbursement and general management of aid resources.

  • Europe digitalization master plan: Lessons for developing nations

    The European Commission took the lead in the digitalization drive in releasing on March 9 an official plan, “2030 Digital Compass: The European Way for the Digital Decade.”

    The document sets out four cardinal points with clear objectives that should be achieved by 2030:

    • Build a digitally skilled population and highly skilled digital professionals. The plan calls for at least 80 percent of all European Union adults to have basic digital skills. There should be 20 million employed ICT specialists in the EU compared to 7.8 million in 2019.

  • Even limited telemedicine could improve developing health

    A lack of infrastructure in developing countries, and particularly in rural areas, often ensures that healthcare provision is absent. Research published in the International Journal of Services, Economics and Management by a team at Howard University in Washington DC suggests a solution to this insidious problem involving the development of telemedicine.

    Ronald Leach and colleagues describe a highly asynchronous service model for healthcare delivery. The approach is much cheaper to implement than direct medicine and even less expensive than other approaches to telemedicine that have been suggested for rural and developing parts of the world. The approach to rolling out their solution is entirely incremental and would provide improved health service even in the initial stages before the system is fully implemented, the team says. "Our proposed service model provides relatively comprehensive, but not universal, healthcare coverage," says Leach. "The application of current thinking in systems service engineering, when coupled with economic models of costs (in both monetary and resource areas), can help provide an extremely useful healthcare environment," he adds.

  • Germany Pledges $5Mio to Support Development Gateway Web-Based Services Helping Developing Countries

    The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has renewed its support of the Development Gateway Foundation with a pledge of $5 million over the next three years. This is Germany's second round of financing for the Development Gateway, whose mission is to put the Internet to work to improve the lives of people in developing countries.

    The Development Gateway's services include online public procurement information platforms, aid information management tools, e-government grant management, global online knowledge-sharing communities and support of an extensive network of local enterprises providing web-related services for local development needs.

  • Green-Wifi will Internet per WLAN in Entwicklungsländer bringen

    Das Green-Wifi-Projekt will Internet-Verbindungen per Funk in Entwicklungsländern möglich machen. Ein mit Solarenergie betriebener WLAN-Accesspoint (AP), der pro Stück 200 US-Dollar kostet, soll dabei helfen. Er arbeitet mit einem Solar-Panel, das 10 Watt Leistung erzeugt, und einer Batterie, die bei geringer Sonneneinstrahlung den WLAN-Router mit Energie versorgen kann. Bei der Aufstellung auf einem Hausdach soll die Reichweite des AP rund einen Kilometer betragen.

  • How can smart cities benefit emerging countries?

    The over-arching purpose of smart cities is to improve the living standards of their people through multiple pathways, be it waste management, transportation or energy efficiency, to name a few. All of this can lead to making citizens more productive and delivering what all countries desire - economic growth.

    A large number of smart city projects have been announced in developing countries, and developed nations have been tapping into smart technologies to upgrade municipal services. Creating and upgrading smart cities is seen as a key route to maintaining the standard of living in a sprawling city, as urbanisation is a trend that is not slowing down any time soon.

  • How digital can lift the developing world out of poverty

    The world's least developed countries can use digital technology to become more inclusive and sustainable. But they'll need our help.

    The internet has revolutionised the way of doing business in industrial countries, but are the poorest nations also benefiting from this transformation? Only one in seven people living in the world's least developed countries (LDCs) has access to the internet.

  • How mobile phones support healthcare in the developing world

    Mobile technology has the potential to revolutionise health care in developing countries, particularly in the area of heath awareness schemes and training health care professionals. Mobile phones are generally affordable and available to the population at large, making them more accessible than computers and far more cost-effective than hospital beds.

  • Internet as a human right in developing countries

    No net, no money, mo' problems

    Internet rights groups and lawyers have warned that high internet prices in developing countries could push them further behind in the fight against poverty. They have also said access to the internet should be a basic human right.

    The comments by the Open Rights Group and Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, a professor of law, and director of Cyber-Rights.Org, follow figures released by the UN looking at the global disparity in fixed broadband access and cost in different countries.

  • Internet und Handy für Demokratie in Afrika wichtig

    Handys in Afrika ein Erfolg

    Entgegen einem weit verbreiteten Klischee steht es um die Nutzung neuer Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) in den Entwicklungsländern nicht schlecht. Zu diesem Fazit kommen das Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) der Universität Bonn und das Büro für Technikfolgenabschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag in einer Studie.

  • IT forum to discuss eGovernment roadmap for developing countries

    Around 1500 e-government executives, decision-makers and key policy makers from 700 regional government organizations, ministries, departments, and agencies will gather in Dubai on May 23-27 for the 15th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.

    Network and communications engineers and managers, IT project managers, telecom and internet service providers, IT solution providers, Consultants, Analysts, and researchers will come together to deliberate forum will deliberate on present and future eGovernment challenges in the region, national eGovernment strategies: objectives and future plans, innovation in eGovernment, and failures '&' success in GCC eGoverment projects.

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