We find that the presence of village Internet facilities, offering government to citizen services, is positively associated with the rate at which the villagers obtain some of these services. In a study of a rural Internet project in India, we identify a positive correlation for two such Internet services: obtaining birth certificates for children and applications for old age pensions. Both the...

Community water fluoridation (CWF) receives huge support from credible mainstream public health professionals and experts in the field. International endorsement of water fluoridation comes from the World Health Organisation (WHO), United States’ Centers for DiseaseControl andPrevention, US SurgeonGeneral, Royal Society of New Zealand, and in Australia, the National Health and Medical Research ...

With the increasing number of citizens accessing the Internet, governments at all levels around the world have no other choice but to utilize information technology, especially the Internet, to provide improved services to their citizens. This paper studies and analyzes the status and challenges of e-government services within early childhood education context in ten of the largest municipaliti...

Developing countries have established promising e-Government initiatives with the objective of enhancing the accessibility of government services and information for their citizens. However, governments tend to design and launch online services based on their understanding of what citizens need, surprisingly, without actually measuring what increases citizens’ willingness to adopt web-enabled s...

OBJECTIVE To illustrate the use of needs-based planning in the identification of physician surpluses and deficits and of resource misallocations within a provincial medical system at a time when provincial governments and medical associations across the country are faced with funding constraints for physician services. DESIGN For each of 4 regions in Manitoba, the authors analysed residents' ...

This article introduces a new concept to the study of decentralization processes: policy dynamism. At its core is the notion that the sequential and temporal process of health decentralization affect the nature of intergovernmental relationships and municipal bureaucratic capacity. Examining the case of Brazil, I argue that the rush to decentralize health services to municipalities has, in the ...

This paper describes an integrated security system for electronic-government services. Many governments are transforming manual government services to electronic government services. This transformation is in most cases done without involving users of the services. This makes users of these services have little trust in the e-government. Security is in most cases not addressed from the early st...

The Semantic Web is defined as an extension of the existing Web, in which information is given a well-defined meaning (Berners-Lee, Hendler, & Lassila 2001). The ultimate goal of the envisioned Semantic Web is to transform the Web into a medium through which data and applications can be automatically understood and processed. The development of technologies for supporting the Semantic Web has b...

Many African governments have invested significant amounts of capital in e-government initiatives. This is mainly due to recognised potentials of e-government to help improve public service delivery and accountability. While the majority of e-government services in the continent are targeted at citizens in general, not many studies have been done to help understand factors that impact on citize...

In recent years, growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has had an impact on the way local, state and national governments work. Use of information electronically in government, popularly known as e-government, is on the rise. E-government is described as the use of technology to enhance the access to, and delivery of, government services to benefit citizens, business partners and employ...