...conducting business. Today many economies embrace information technology to be more competent and to develop competitive advantages. In this study we will focus on the implementation of e-government: The case of e-judiciary in Mauritius. E-government is the application of IT in the provision of government and services with an aim of minimizing the burden of public administration and the business activities to its citizens. According to Wikipedia, e-government refer to “government use of information and communication (ICT) to exchange information and services with citizen (government- to-citizen, or G2c), businesses (Government-to-business, or G2B), and other arms of government ( Government-to-government, or G2G)”. In Mauritius e-government is available at http://www.gov.mu The component that need to be installed for e-government to be effective include websites for assessment of information, improvement of service delivery, rendering affordable and reliable the telecommunication and electricity connectivity, information technology to liberate citizen, well developed infrastructure: such as computer hardware and software, adequate funding, availability of adequate skill human resources to collect and organize information and well developed government policies (silock 2001) The need for e-government Information...
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...sciencedirect.com Government Information Quarterly 25 (2008) 155 – 180 E-government policy and practice: A theoretical and empirical exploration of public e-procurement Catherine A. Hardy ⁎, Susan P. Williams Information Policy and Practice Research Group, Discipline of Business Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Available online 19 April 2007 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to theoretically and empirically explore how public e-procurement policies are translated into practice. The theoretical argument draws on actor network theory (ANT), coupled with Colebatch’s [Colebatch, H. K. (2002). Policy (2nd ed.). Maidenhead, Open University Press.] social construct of policy, to analyze the actors, actions, and circumstances through which understanding of public e-procurement comes to stabilize (or not) into a coherent policy for action. Drawing on three case studies of central government agencies in Italy, Scotland, and Western Australia, we suggest new intellectual perspectives and methodological heuristics that may assist researchers and practitioners analytical efforts in examining sociotechnical change and the implications for policy development and implementation. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: E-government; E-procurement; Actor network theory; Social construction of policy 1. Introduction Public e-procurement, as an information system (IS) enabled innovation in government, is transforming...
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...CONTROL OF POLLUTION) CESS ACT, 1977 2 THE AIR (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) ACT, 1981 7 HAZARDOUS WASTE (Management and Handling) RULES, July 1989 9 THE NOISE POLLUTION (Regulation and Control Amendment) Rules 2005 (2000, 2005, 2006, 2010) 11 References: 12 THE WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) CESS ACT, 1977 The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 7th December, 1977, and is hereby published for general information:-- An Act to provide for the levy and collection of a cess on water consumed by persons carrying on certain industries and by local authorities, with a view to augment the resources of the Central Board and the State Boards for the prevention and control of water pollution constituted under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-- 1. SHORT TITLE, EXTENT, APPLICATION AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), it applies to all the States to which the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 applies and the Union territories. (4) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless the...
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...(No. 39 of 1987) [As Amended by the Legal Services Authorities (Amendment) Act, 1994 (No. 59 of 1994)] (11 th October 1987) An Act to constitute legal services authorities to provide free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities and to organise Lok Adalats to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity. Be it enacted by Parliament In the Thirty eight year of the Republic of India as follows :CHAPTER- I PRELIMINARY Short title, 1. (1) This Act may be called the Legal Services extent and Authorities Act. 1987. commencement (2) It extends to the whole of India, except the State of Jammu...
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...INTRODUCING e-GOV: HISTORY, DEFINITIONS, AND ISSUES Åke Grönlund Örebro University, ake.gronlund@esi.oru.se Thomas A. Horan Claremont Graduate University, ABSTRACT The e-Gov field (also called Electronic Government, Digital Government, Electronic Governance, and similar names) emerged in the late 1990´s. Since then it spurred several scientific conferences and journals. Because the field grew considerably in size, both its contents and position with respect to other research fields and disciplines need to be explained and discussed. What is e-Gov? What is e-Gov research? What does it mean for the field of Information Systems? This paper briefly sketches the short eGov history and current status, and discusses the content of the field as it appears in current research. We conclude with a discussion of e-Gov as a research field of interest both as a new application area for IS theories and methods and as a source of new insight. Keywords: electronic government, governance I. INTRODUCTION The e-Gov (Electronic Government or Electronic Governance) field1 emerged in the late 1990´s as a context within which to share experiences among practitioners. Over the past few years eGov gave rise to several conferences with more and more scientific content. Some specialized journals now appear. Because the field grew to considerable size, both its contents and position with respect to other research fields and disciplines needs to be explained and discussed. What is e-Gov? What is e-Gov research...
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...Information Security Policy for E-government in Saudi Arabia: Effectiveness, Vulnerabilities and Threats [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institute] Executive Summary Introduction: In many countries, the implementation of the E-Government has proved to be useful in providing efficient services to the consumers. This increases the speed of the work and does not cause any unnecessary delays. All these aspects matters for the efficient service of the Government work. In the end, it proves to be beneficial for both Government and the citizens living in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, in this study, all the issues related to the Information Security Policy will be discussed in detail. The research study is worth for a number of reasons. Firstly, it will help in assessing the degree of effectiveness of the present security policy, security holes in the policy, and threats not addressed by the policy. It, in turn, would help in coming up with measures of ensuring that the policy is security-oriented, which increases citizens’ confidence in using e-government services. Literature Review: The primary purpose of producing literature review is to support the findings of this study via the theoretical justifications obtained from literature. The review revealed that in Saudi Arabia, there is the absence of agencies to monitor the accountability of e-government services. Most of the workers of offices in Saudi Arabia lack professionalism, and this is a great weakness in the implementation...
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...Towards a Pragmatic Land Acquisition Policy for Industrial Use - Indian Economy Project Report Group 8 Isha Mani Ganesh Jithin CR PGP/15/283 Manju Nair PGP/15/288 Manish Govindan PGP/15/287 Prem Sarath 1|P ag e PGP/15/280 PGP/15/304 Contents 1. Introduction................................ ................................ ................................ ............................... 3 2. Land Acquisition Act, 1894 ................................ ................................ ................................ ......... 3 The Process ................................ ................................ ................................ ............................... 3 Definition of Public Purpose................................ ................................ ................................ ....... 4 Compensation and Valuation ................................ ................................ ................................ ..... 4 3. Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill 2011 ................................ ................ 4 4. Land Acquisition across the Globe................................ ................................ .............................. 8 5. Case Studies of Land Acquisition in India ................................ ................................ .................... 9 6. Reforms and Recommendations ................................ ................................ ..........................
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...Measuring customers’ satisfaction with E-government services in Egypt "A case study of E-Education Services" 1 Contents I.Introduction and research problem II.The E-government and customer satisfaction (Theoretical Framework) a- E-government services b- Customer satisfaction c-The relationship between the two concepts Page number 3 4-7 III.Measuring customers’ satisfaction with E-government services in Egypt (A case study on E-education services) a- The Egyptian experience in applying the E-government services. b- The satisfaction of the customers (students) with in E-education services. c- Evaluating of the E- services and addressing the challenges and the opportunities. IV.Conclusion V.References Annex 1- Egypt's short country fact sheets 7-12 13 14-16 17-21 2 I. Introduction E-government is one of the obvious manifestations of the adoption of information and communication technologies in the public work place. It implies the delivery of government services to customers, business partners, government employees, and other government agencies (Deloitte Research, 2000). Elmargamid and McIver (2001) classified E-government services into four levels; one-way information provision, bi-directional information on demand, complex transactional services to the creation of e-customer portals. Examples of these services are vast including; birth and death certificates, property taxes, vehicle taxes, income returns taxes, shop...
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...PRIORITIES IN E-GOVERNANCE RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED BY Lokesh Sharma Ankita Prasad Contents Abstract 4 Introduction 4 Research Objective 8 Literature Review 9 Research Approach 10 Impact Assessment of various projects 11 Union Government MMPs 11 MCA21 11 Online Passport Services: 12 Online Income Tax 13 Pension 14 Banking 15 E-office 15 Central Excise 16 U.I.D 17 Insurance 17 State Government MMPs 18 Land Records 18 Road Transport 18 Agriculture 19 Police 19 Treasuries 19 Municipality 20 Commercial Taxes 21 Gram Panchayats 21 Employment Exchange 21 Integrated MMP 22 CSC 22 e-Courts 22 e-Trade 22 India Portal 23 National Service Delivery Gateway 23 e-Biz 23 e-Procurement 23 Prioritizing with respect to parameters 24 Conclusion 25 References 26 Abstract e-Governance is the form of interaction between government and citizens ,businesses and other arms of government using information technology .These technology can help government is fulfilling various needs like improved interaction between business and industries ,better delivery of services to citizens ,improved interactions with business and industry ,better...
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...results of trade under oligopoly. We concentrate on three topics: oligopoly as an independent determinant of trade, as illustrated by the reciprocal-markets model of Brander (1981); oligopoly as an independent rationale for government intervention, as illustrated by strategic trade and industrial policy in the third-market model of Spencer and Brander (1983); and the challenges and potential of embedding trade under oligopoly in general equilibrium as illustrated by the GOLE model of Neary (2002). Keywords: GOLE (General Oligopolistic Equilibrium); reciprocal dumping; strategic trade policy. JEL Classi…cation: F12, L13 Prepared for the Palgrave Handbook of International Trade, edited by Daniel Bernhofen, Rod Falvey, David Greenaway and Udo Kreickemeier. We are grateful to Daniel Bernhofen, Monika Mrázová and Tony Venables for helpful discussions. Dermot Leahy acknowledges the support of the Science Foundation Ireland Research Frontiers Programme (Grant MAT 017). y Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland; tel.: +353 (0) 1-708 3786; e-mail: dermot.leahy@nuim.ie. z Address for Correspondence: Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Manor Road Building, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, U.K.; tel.: +44 (0)1865-271085; e-mail: peter.neary@economics.ox.ac.uk. 1 Introduction Oligopoly means competition among the few, and the study of markets with a relatively small number of large …rms is an...
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...rule, or lobby the government to relax it. We analyze this choice, and its consequences, in a simple dynamic model. In equilibrium, when the level of development is low, firms are more inclined to bend the rule through bribery but they tend to switch to lobbying when the level of development is sufficiently high. Bribery, however, is associated with holdup problems, which discourage firms from investing. If the holdup problems are severe, firms will never invest enough to make lobbying worthwhile. The country may then be stuck in a poverty trap with bribery forever. The model can account for the common perception that bribery is relatively more common in poor countries, whereas lobbying is relatively more common in rich ones. In India, as elsewhere in the developing world, the old business of corruption is meeting a new rival: the Washington-style business of persuasion — –International Herald Tribune, May 31, 2006 ◦ W L obbying and corruption have been the subject of tremendous public interest and research. Surprisingly, these two means of influencing regulation have either been studied separately or viewed as basically being one and the same. The question of why firms choose to lobby or bribe, and of the consequences of this choice, remains largely unanswered. The common perception is that firms in developing countries are more likely to pay bribes to get around regulatory constraints, whereas firms in developed countries are more prone to lobby the government to change the rules...
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...Teacher’s Guide Anatomy of the Constitution Time Needed: One class period Materials Needed: Student worksheets Copy Instructions: Preamble Activity Half Sheet (class set, divided) Student packet (three pages double-sided; class set) Preamble (Transparency) Whose Job Is It? (Transparency) Foldable Activity (class set) Learning Objectives. Students will be able to: explain the structure, function, and powers of the U.S. government as established in the Constitution identify the roles of the three branches of government describe the constitutional amendment process interpret the intentions of the Preamble of the Constitution. STEP BY STEP 1) ANTICIPATE by asking students where the government gets it’s instructions. How does Congress, the President, or federal judges know what to do? Give students a moment to think, then randomly call on students to share their thoughts. 2) DISTRIBUTE one reading packet to each student. 3) READ through the first two paragraphs on page one with the class. 4) DISPLAY the transparency, Breaking it Down: The Preamble and explain the statement, phrase by phrase. The students should add the annotations to their reading. Also note that people living in the 1700s had different rules about capitalization than we do today. 5) READ the rest of page one, continuing through page three with the class. Explain that you will go into greater detail on the amendment process on the next page. 6) READ the information about the amendment process...
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...E-Governance for Rural Development Swati Bhatt Sr. Lecturer (Marketing Area), Dept of Management Studies India is a land of diversity. This diversity spans across culture, tradition, language, geography and the economic condition of the people. It is a nation that has a significant number of people who are below the minimal socio-economic benchmarks. This includes rural and urban poor, women in rural areas, street children, people belonging to historically disadvantaged castes and people living in less developed areas. The vulnerability of these sections of society has increased with globalization and this section is prone to become even more marginalized - economically and socially. Successive governments have committed themselves to addressing these divides, but effective implementation of various economic development programmes aimed at individuals belonging to these sections of society has proved an elusive goal. During the 1980s and early 1990s, initial attempts towards e-Governance were made with a focus on networking government departments and developing in-house government applications in the areas of defence, economic monitoring, planning and the deployment of IT to manage data-intensive functions related to elections, census, tax administration etc.80 These applications focused on automation of internal government functions rather than on improving service delivery to citizens. Over the past decade or so, there have been islands of e-Governance initiatives...
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...E-Governance MIS- PROJECT 1/26/2013 Batch B Group 4 Vinay Chandran Jijith Balakrishnan Karanveer Kang Jagannath Mohan Anoop Q 1. E-Government history? The origin of e-Government dates back to 1993, in the United States, the government of which promoted the ‘National Information Infrastructure Initiative’, in order to promote a fabric of communication networks, computers, databases and consumer electronics that placed an enormous quantity of information at the disposal of users, as well has helping cause an information revolution that changed the way of life, work and interaction of people and constructed a ICT resource platform in which industry, government and universities integrated their information systems. At the end of the same year, Europe also confronted the new challenge and commissioned a report on the global Information Society in Europe to be presented in June 1994; the Bangemann Report ‘Europe and the global information society. Recommendations to the European Council. Ten applications were proposed in the report for the launch of the information society. The ninth of them was the creation of a trans-European public administration network, with the initial aim of providing more efficient and cheaper information exchange (replacing paper with electronic media) to then be employed to unite public administrations and European citizens. In the year 2000, the European Union launched the Action Plan eEurope 2002-An Information Society for All, which laid down...
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...International Journal of Economy, Management and Social Sciences, 2(2) February 2013, Pages: 31-36 TI Journals International Journal of Economy, Management and Social Sciences www.waprogramming.com ISSN 2306-7276 PEST Analysis: The case of E-shop Dimitrios Nikolaou Koumparoulis Full-time Professor of Economics and Management, Universidad Azteca – Mexico. AR TIC LE INF O Keywords: AB STR AC T PEST analysis stands for "Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis" and describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in the environmental scanning component of strategic management. At this paper we study the case of E-shop, a private company in Greece, illustrating the reasons why a company should work on pest framework. The author would like to dedicate this paper to Mr. David Scott and his family. © 2013 Int. j. econ. manag. soc. sci. All rights reserved for TI Journals. pest analysis case study E-shop Jel Classification: M10 M19 1. Introduction In the new economic environment that has emerged as an impact of the recent ‘crisis’, the complexity of each industry forms a demanding context that affects consistently both the internal and external environment of organizations. As a result, the majority of the firms need to maintain their competitive advantage. However, a firm have to constantly increase the value of their products offered to clients in order to sustain their competitive advantage (Barney, 2008), as well as being profitable...
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