The food and agribusiness is an important sector in European logistics with a share in the EU road transport of about 20%. One of the main logistic challenges in this sector is to deal with the high dynamics and uncertainty in supply and demand. This paper defines requirements on Future Internet (FI) technologies that have to be met to accomplish the specific challenges of agri-food logistics. ...

This paper presents data and analyses from a long term ethnographic study of the development of an electronic patient records system in a UK hospital Trust – TA ‘Dependable Deployment’. The project is a public private partnership (PPP) between the Trust and a US based software house (USCo) contracted to supply, configure and support their customizable-off-the-shelf (COTS) healthcare information...

There is a growing evidence to believe that governments and NGOs have accepted reasons for 'working together as partners' and complement each other's efforts. During the last few years, South Asian states have undertaken some collaborative development interventions with a focus on health, education and income generation. As a result a number of projects with government, non-government and busin...

The world is coming up with new solutions to old problems in order improve efficiency and effectiveness public service delivery. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) a relatively form of participatory governance. Th approach linked New Public Management (NPM) and, since its inception, the private sector has taken over entire despite in-congruence incompatibility indigenous values cultures. PPP also...

Background: Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) sponsored Public Private Partnership (PPP) is undermined by poor participation by private practitioners (PPs).There is an urgent need to realizefactors influencing private practitioners’ preference of directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) for their patients. We attempted to study the knowledge and current practice chara...