We describe ongoing efforts towards developing language resources for a transnational digital government project aimed at applying information technology (IT) to a problem of international concern: detecting and monitoring activities related to the transnational movement of illicit drugs. The project seeks to support information sharing, coordination and collaboration among government agencies ...

governments around the worlds especially in developing countries face with tremendous challenges.  high or moderate rate of corruption can be named as one of the most important of these challenges.  corruption and its inefficiency can deviate resources allocation to unproductive sectors of economy. trust in social networks or within the society has two antithetic effects in deployment of corrup...

It is found for the last two decades that there has been a rapid rise of PPPs across the world. A government in developing countries like India is using PPP arrangements for improved delivery of infrastructure services and social services. Public Private Partnerships which are an integral part of the new paradigm of good governance policy is the most recent addition in the world of society and ...

This paper aims to develop and present a framework that enables the creation and deployment of regional capacity-building networks in e-government. To accomplish this goal, a focus group is used for the creation of real InterAmerican Network Capacity-Building in e-government. The andings from this research show that speciac hierarchical and professional proales within public administration dese...

“information technologies...that have the ability to transform relations with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government...[and] can serve a variety of different ends: better delivery of government services to citizens, improved interactions with business and industry, citizen empowerment through access to information, or more efficient government management...benefits can be less corru...

In this paper, we report a databank development project in which structured textual data from historical documents are extracted to provide information access of higher data granularity. The availability of the databank opens up tremendous opportunities for research topics in government personnel systems that were limited by data acquisition difficulty in the past. The project demonstrates the ...

This paper addresses tariff revenue concerns that some countries have been expressing in the context of the current multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. This paper: discusses methodological issues associated with estimating revenue impacts; provides impact estimates for a sample of developing countries; links the differences in impacts to cross-country differences ...