New wave public health places an emphasis on exhorting individuals to engage in healthy behaviour with good health being a signifier of virtuous moral standing, whereas poor health is often associated with personal moral failings. In effect, the medical is increasingly being collapsed into the moral. This approach is consistent with other aspects of contemporary neolibe...

Information communication technology (ICT) governance is a subset of the larger notion of "corporate governance". As ICT issues become increasingly important and information becomes one of the most valuable assets of organisations, the sound governance of ICT becomes a major factor in organisational success. Standards such as the Australian New Zealand Standard on ICT Governance provide useful ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate healthcare professional perceptions of local implementation of a national clinical governance policy in New Zealand. DESIGN Respondent comments written at the end of a national healthcare professional survey designed to assess implementation of core components of the clinical governance policy. SETTING The written comments were provided by respondents to a survey d...

Models of public governance are changing profoundly due to global and digital transformations and various context-specific societal pressures. One direction of development is the increased utilisation of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in facilitating governance practices. Such changes are intended to improve the performance of public organisations, the quality of democratic g...

Nowadays organizations require an effective governance framework for their service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to enable them to use a framework to evaluate their current state governance and determine the governance requirements, and then to offer a suitable model for their governance. Various frameworks have been developed to evaluate the SOA governance. In this paper, a brief introd...

In the last two decades, democratic politics and practices have taken a significant leap in Africa. Many countries have enthroned competitive multiparty democracy, and the political space has been gradually liberalised with political parties and civil society organizations receiving a new lease of life. Ethno-regional diversities have also been given political expression and accommodation. Marg...