Documents and articles

ICT Focus Group: Issues Paper

ICTs in Support of e-Government and Public Sector Reforms
ADF IV on Governance for a Progressing Africa, October 11 – 15 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

African Governments on the Internet

Includes information on national and local governments, political parties, and other country-specific political information.

Government Procurement

Ghana just launched an electronic procurement system that promises to reduce opportunities for corruption in Government procurement. The system includes 50 community development centers in every district in Ghana where prospective bidders have access to government solicitations, can download blueprints, become compliant with government regulations, and create and submit bids.

The impact of eGovernment in British Local Government

eGovernment in Africa: Promise and Practice, By Richard Heeks, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester

eGovernment for Development: General Online Resources Page

How can e-government help developing countries? This site provides some topic-specific answers.

Country profiles of e-governance

15 country abstracts to represent different situations in each of UNESCO's region: in Africa (Botswana, Mauritius, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania), in the Arab States (Morocco), in Asia and in the Pacific (India, Malaysia, New Zealand and Republic of Korea), in Europe and North America (Canada, Estonia, Hungary, Malta) and in Latin America and the Caribbean (Jamaica, Mexico). United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The First Study On Digital Governance In Municipalities Worldwide

Newark, New Jersey – November 16, 2003: This survey was conducted jointly by the E-governance Institute of Rutgers University-Newark and the Global e-Policy e-Government Institute of Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, and was co-sponsored by the UN Division for Public Administration and Development Management, and the American Society for Public Administration. This is the first research effort to evaluate digital governance in municipalities throughout the world.

Technology and Governance Publications

The Institute On Governance (IOG) is a non-profit organization with charitable status founded in 1990 to promote effective governance. From our perspective, governance comprises the traditions, institutions and processes that determine how power is exercised, how citizens are given a voice, and how decisions are made on issues of public concern.

Toward Citizen Relation Management

Citizens' Trust in Digital Government: Toward Citizen Relation Management
By Seung-Yong Rho and Lung-Teng Hu, Graduate Department of Public Administration, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, 101 Bleeker Street, # 85, Newark, NJ 07102

Best practices on Digital Governance

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links on application of ICT in Governance.

The focus of the DigitalGovernance.org Initiative continues to be on developing countries where ICT can play a significant role in building accountable and democratic governance institutions. What is required is strategic application of knowledge and innovative use of available technology to provide governance services to all sections of the society. And this will require- visionary leadership and concerted efforts by national governments and the civil society. And the focus of electronic governance has to be on those who have been mostly marginalized of benefits of good governance.

e-Government Guide, Global Development Gateway

The Development Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development. We help improve people's lives in developing countries by building partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development.

Address on Internet Governance

Telecom Africa-2004, Cairo, 5 May 2004, Houlin Zhao, Director of TSB, ITU

Government Information on the Internet

African Government Information from National Library of Australia.

Links to institutions

eGovernment Africa

eGovernment Resource Center: The Victorian Government is widely regarded as a world leader in making its services available to the public online. Since 1995 agencies of the Victorian government have carried out an enormous amount of innovative and practical work aimed at having all suitable services available online by the end of 2001. The results of this work to date can be best seen by visiting DoItOnline on the Victorian Government portal Victoria Online where online services are provided.

Digital Governance

Website documenting research on efforts to use information and communication technology (ICT) totowards good governance in developing countries

The Regional Workshop on Building e-Governance Capacity in Africa

The mission of UNPAN - United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance - is to promote the sharing of knowledge, experiences and best practices throughout the world in sound public policies, effective public administration and efficient civil services, through capacity-building and cooperation among the United Nations Member States, with emphasis on south-south cooperation and UNPAN's commitment to integrity and excellence.

eGovernment for Development

How can e-government help developing countries? Resources for those setting up and evaluating e-government projects.

Africa ICT Policy Monitor

Mobilizing African Civil Society around the importance of ICT policy for the development of the continent. Includes links to various mailing lists for subscribers.

Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance

The launch of The Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance takes cognisance of the perception that long-term impacts of realising electronic governance in countries and institutions are likely to realise a number of benefits including financial resource savings, time resource savings, access and empowerment to share information and ideas as well as knowledge with greater and more enhanced ease.

e-Government, World Bank

World Bank's e-government website, focusing on e-government in developing countries

Center For Democracy & Technology (CDT), Washington

CDT works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.