Governments which have privatised their advisory services still try to influence farmers’ land use and land management decisions in order to achieve policy objectives. At the same time farmers and other managers of rural land need access to increasingly complex and varied information and advice when making land use and business decisions. This paper reviews the range of ways in which advisory s...

This paper reports on the design of a collaborative system to support citizens’ advisory services. Recent research on the adoption of collaborative technologies indicates that: a) successful collaborative technologies diffuse from the private sector to the business sector and not vice versa, b) collaborative processes evolve and therefore cannot be prestructured in detail, and c) creative colla...

III. SECURITIES MARKET INTERMEDIARIES ............................................. 283 A. Securities Analysts ....................................................................... 283 B. Auditors........................................................................................ 291 C. Proxy Advisory Services .............................................................. 294 D. Sharehold...

National Forum on Health, Canada Health Action: Building on the Legacy – Final Report of the National Forum on Health (Ottawa: Minister of Public Works and Government Services, 1997) at 20. Auditor General of Canada, Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the House of Commons, 1999 – Chapter 29: Federal Support of Health Care Delivery (Ottawa; Minister of Public Works and Government Service...

In public advisory services, the individual’s satisfaction depends less on extrinsic factors (e.g., monetary rewards) than on their inner needs fulfillment. Currently used IT-systems supporting citizen advisory services neglect these intrinsic needs of their users, hence insufficiently fostering their satisfaction. In this article, we aim to close this gap by assessing the design requirements n...

Health systems constraints are impeding the implementation of major global initiatives for health and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Research could contribute to overcoming these barriers. An independent task force has been convened by WHO to suggest areas where international collaborative research could help to generate the knowledge necessary to improve health syst...