This paper examined the Nigerian population situation with specific reference to its history and growth by reviewing the available literature and documents. It discussed efforts made by different governments as regard population policies to influence demographic variables, increase welfare and standard of living of people and why these policies were ineffective. The paper also discussed the pos...

Decentralisation has become an essential tool of democracy and development. Decentralisation has been widely promoted all over the world as a means of promoting governance, participation and local development. Undoubtedly, decentralisation is a positive action. However, decentralised local governments are yet to effectively deliver the much-expected results. In Ghana, concerns have been raised ...

1.4 Review of documents All documents submitted for consideration by the Workshop had been submitted by or through Contracting Governments. The Chair referred participants to the list of documents (Appendix 2). A total of 25 documents had been submitted for discussion. Additional documents that were available as background and for information are also listed in Appendix 2. The Chair went throug...

This paper outlines the dramatic return to Sudan of 150,000 men, women and children from Itang Refugee Camp in Ethiopia in June 1991. These people were pawns in Sudan's civil war, manipulated by governments, military forces and the media - a state of affairs that the international community failed to deal with effectively. At the time of the return to Sudan, ICRC and the United Nations were wor...

e-Government puts demands on government organisations which may require new management frameworks. This paper presents interim findings from a doctoral research study exploring how a framework based on the New Institutional Economics leads to greater understanding and new insights. This paper, which outlines the theory and shows how it has been applied as a practical business tool in an e-gover...

Growing recognition that the acute health care delivery system contributes proportionally less to health when compared with environment and behavior has focused scholars and public health experts on the need to address nonmedical determinants of health. This paper outlines some steps that the U.S. government can take to address these factors and describes some of the challenges involved. Action...

E-government includes fast and improved citizen service from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, as well as the restructuring and reengineering of organizations and their services, through the increased usage and exploitation of the capabilities and services of ICT’s and the Internet. The escalation of the e-government services begins with easy access to governmental information and p...

Content personalization has been one of the major trends in recent Document Engineering Research. The “one document for n users” paradigm is being replaced by the “one user, one document” model, where the content to be delivered to a particular user is generated by some means. This is a very promising approach for e-Government, where personalized government services, including document generati...

To conduct their business, organizations are nowadays challenged to handle huge amount of information from heterogeneous sources. Novel technologies can help them dealing with this delicate assignment. In this paper we describe an approach to document clustering and outlier detection that is regularly used to organize and summarize knowledge stored in huge amounts of documents in a government o...