Introduction Health system responses to the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in many Southeast Asian nations, Cambodia included, have been insufficient. Little is known about how people suffering from such conditions behave in constrained contexts. We examined the experience of patients with NCDs as they seek care for their conditions and manage them. Methods In-depth interviews ...

PROBLEM There is ongoing concern that governments at many levels are not devoting enough attention and resources to sanita tion services, particularly when compared to spending on water supply and other infrastructure services. Additionally, existing sanitation investments and service provision are not often pro-poor. Efforts to increase access to sanitation infrastructure often benefit better-...

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 ...

W analyze how a government allocates its resources between attacking to downgrade a terrorist’s resources and defending against a terrorist attack. Analogously, the terrorist allocates its resources between attacking a government’s asset and defending its own resources. A two-stage game is considered where the government moves first and the terrorist moves second. We show that (a) when the terr...

In this paper, we report a databank development project in which structured textual data from historical documents are extracted to provide information access of higher data granularity.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 ...

Available evidence about the government responses to World Trade Center attack indicates that information technology played a critically important role. Effective use of a variety of information technologies helped government agencies to better cope with and respond to the multiple crises, and ongoing recovery demands, resulting from the attack. At the same time, the severity of the crisis was ...

Despite the potential for information systems to improve societal conditions in developing countries, a lack of cumulative knowledge building to inform interventions hampers progress. This paper reports an integrated action research – design science project that addressed the problem of limited adoption of e-government in Bangladesh and contributes to design theory. Inadequate knowledge of the ...

Implementation of transactional services in e-government is a very critical function for the development and success of a comprehensive e-government. Empirical efforts to conceptualize the organization, definition and delimitation to implement transactional services are often limited, to making public services available by means of online facilities on the internet, without taking into account ...

Nowadays, with the rapid development of China’s economics, like many foreign governments, Chinese government regards improving farmers’ living standard as the basic state policy, which has introduced many policies and poured a large sum of money to develop and promote New Countryside Construction, and planning and building rural E-Government and E-commerce is key content of New Countryside Cons...