This chapter, as a case study would like to put forward a pioneering programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that acted as catalytic factor in many developing countries initiating from 1992. Many of projects under this programme, namely the sustainable development networking programme (SDNP) lead the country ́s information technology sector and eventually act as a positive c...

IT (Information Technology) governance has been a widely studied subject. This has generated different definitions and conceptual models to explain it. We conduct a concept-centric literature review based on a literature reference model. We used three literature frameworks to identify key-variables to evaluate and classify Brazilian IT governance publications. These variables were used to class...

Proactive economic policies combined with the ICT revolution of the past decade have brought about many changes in managing businesses and organizations in developing countries like India. The prowess achieved through this revolution has also led to exploitation of ICT for better governance and rural development. As a result, several ICT projects have been initiated to foster improved governanc...

We discuss the applications of Gauge Theory Gravity (GTG) within the language of geometric algebra to the Dirac equation in the de Sitter and Rindler metrics as well as to the Unruh effect. We rederive the Hawking temperature for each case. The derivation of both the correct Fermi-Dirac statistics as well as the Hawking temperature may suggest that the method of calculations we employ here geom...

In recent years, there is a growing interest in the study of cross-national policy convergence, which is closely related to research on the domestic impact of globalisation. Yet we still have a limited understanding of the phenomenon of policy convergence. Does the strong growth of economic and institutional interlinkages between nation states lead to increasingly similar policies across countr...

The peaceful and democratic integration of the European countries, including the Eastern enlargement of the Union, cannot be completed if the EU does not become a true, though not federal, polity. Making the European institutions fully legitimate and accountable requires the development of political identity in a shape which is different from both national and cultural identity, but is not oppo...

The Republic of Estonia has been, and still is, widely credited to be a pioneer in e-governance and especially e-democracy, with headlines such as “Estonia: 10 Years from Communism to Advanced eDemocracy!” It had frequently been expected, too, that Estonia would be the leading country for evoting, introducing it already for the national elections this year. However, in the very last changes of ...

business is business! And business must grow –Dr. Seuss, The Lorax The paper investigates the agency argument that sales growth in firms with free cash flow (and without strong governance) is less profitable than sales growth for firms without free cash flow. It also tests whether strong governance conditions improve the performance of firms with free cash flow and/or limit the investments in u...

In the recent past, two significant changes have taken place in efforts to address rural poor: Businesses have started recognizing potential of rural markets and governments have started providing G2C services to rural citizens through telecenters. Telecenters have emerged as the most popular mode of e-governance projects in many of the developing countries. In this paper we argue that these ru...

The “digital divide” between urban and rural areas has introduced a significant issue in equal access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in developing countries such as Bangladesh. This inequitable access to ICT has implication for productivity and economic growth of the country. To bridging the gap, Government of Bangladesh has taken initiatives to introduce various ICT interv...