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Title

Local governance and ICTs in Africa : case studies and guidelines for implementation and evaluation / edited by Timothy Mwololo Waema and Edith Ofwona Adera.

Publication

Cape Town [South Africa] : Pambazuka Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Adera, Edith Ofwona,
• Adera, Edith Ofwona.
• Waema, T. M.
• Waema, T. M.,

Description

xxiv, 357 p. : ill.,; 20 cm.

Summary

With case studies from nine African countries this book provides a rich understanding of the status of e-governance in Africa, assesses the effects of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on local governance, and offers a roadmap for policymakers, decision-makers, and practitioners to implement and evaluate their own e-local governance projects. With governance high on the agenda in Africa, many governments are using ICTs to introduce innovations in their structure, practices, and capacities as well as in the ways they use human capital and deliver services to citizens. However, the potential for e-governance in Africa remains largely unexploited. Progress requires infrastructure improvement, the enactment of appropriate laws and policies, and capacity and content development. This book addresses the lack of evidence on ICTs in local governance in Africa and provides an important collection of studies and analyses on the transformative potential of ICT. -- Publisher description.

Subject

• Communication > Social aspects > Africa
• Information technology > Africa
• Information technology > Social aspects > Africa
• Internet in public administration > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-352) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction --- 2. Egovernance assessment framework --- 3. Business process mapping for elocal governance projects in Egypt --- 4. E-local governance: a case study on lifeevent services in the kebeles of Addis Ababa Ethiopia --- 5. ICTs and financial management in Mavoko and Nyeri municipal councils Kenya --- 6. Revenue management systems in municipal and district councils in Mauritius --- 7. Roadmap to "e-government for good governance" in a developing country context: Morocco --- 8. Influence of the e-government implementation process on outcomes: case study of the Land Management Information System in Mozambique --- 9. E-governance for social and local economic development: a case study of Gauteng province, South Africa --- 10. ICTs in local governance: a case study of the Local Government Information Communication System (LoGICS) in Uganda --- 11. ICTs for political inclusion and good governance in northern Ghana --- 12. Summary of findings and e-local governance roadmap.

ISBN

• 9780857490322
• 085749032X

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library