Reforming Ghana’s Electoral Process: Lessons and the Way Forward

Process Improvement - The Way Forward

The paper briefly reviews the difficulties encountered in achieving further major improvement in some aspects of the software evolution process. This may, it is suggested, be due, in part, to the fact that the global process is a complex, multi loop multilevel feedback system. After summarising the results of a 1970s study and the laws of software evolution that arose from it, the paper introdu...

Software Process Improvement - The Way Forward

Thanks in no small measure to the work of groups such as IFIP WG 2.3 and its members based on earlier work in areas such as high level programming languages, major progress have been achieved in programming methodology and methods [gri78]. In particular, it led to major advances in computer science and to the increasing use of formal methods in software development. This, in turn, was applied t...

Millennium Development Goals: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agenda crafted in 2001 targeting prominent challenges the world facing. These are eight international development goals to be achieved by 2015 addressing poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, communicable disease, education, gender inequality, environmental damage and the global partnership. This framework has laid ground by setting quantitative ...

HIV vaccines: lessons learned and the way forward.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW An effective HIV vaccine is a global health priority. We describe lessons learned from four HIV vaccine trials that failed to demonstrate efficacy and one that showed modest protection as a pathway forward. RECENT FINDINGS The Merck Ad5 phase IIb T-cell vaccine failed to show efficacy and might have increased the risk of HIV acquisition in men who have sex with men. Although...

Reforming New York’s Medicaid Eligibility Process: Lessons from Other States