Transparency is one of the most influential themes in global environmental governance, however it has received limited treatment transboundary fisheries. essential to ensure officials are held accountable for use public resources and achievement objectives, such as sustainable harvest. Here, we a case study approach assess transparency fisheries evaluating transshipment Western Central Pacific ...

Good veterinary governance assumes the provision of veterinary services that are sustainably financed, universally available, and provided efficiently without waste or duplication, in a manner that is transparent and free of fraud or corruption. Good veterinary governance is a necessary condition for sustainable economic development insomuch as it promotes the effective delivery of services and...

Livestock contributes significantly to the world economy. However, animal diseases and food safety are still major constraints on livestock-sector productivity, economic growth, the reduction of poverty and food security. Efficient and effective governance of Veterinary Services throughout the world is a fundamental requirement for addressing the global animal health and related public health t...

Citizens in modern societies demand quality public services. People like to participate and collaborate in local governments by means of suggestions and complaints submission. Administrative procedures have arrived to the Web and citizens can save a lot of time because of this new situation. Not only citizens need to save time, but also civil servants do. The system we suggest in this paper sup...

With the proliferation of the Internet and rapid development of information and communication infrastructure, E-governance has become a viable option for effective deployment of government services and programs. Areas of E-governance such as Homeland security and disaster relief have to deal with vast amounts of dynamic heterogeneous data. Providing rapid real-time search capabilities for such ...

Our researches on adaptive systems are inspired by their ability of building by themselves a representation of their surrounding world. Using cooperation as a local criterion of self-organization, we study in a network of neuro-agents the evolution of the system and in the same way, the emergence of a functioning coherent with the environmental feed-back. In this paper we expose the abilities o...

Business groups played an important role in the economic development of East Asian countries. Yet business groups in East Asia face an uncertain future. Following the Asian Crisis, foreign creditors and investors have demanded that business groups have more transparent operations and stronger corporate governance. At the same time, as governments in East Asia have loosened trade barriers, busin...

Implementation of marine ecosystem-based management requires improved understanding of existing governance, including gaps and overlaps resulting from fragmented management. Focusing on overlaps, this paper presents a technique using text analysis to assist in the identification of agencies and laws involved in overlaps from a system perspective. The overlaps analysis uses term frequency counts...

Democracies of the globalised world has been have been striving towards citizen empowerment in the recent decade where E-Governance is perceived as a facilitator. Democratic governments in general feel that being accessible online 24/7 to the average citizen not only makes them transparent, but also empowers the average citizen. In this process, citizen data privacy, information sharing across ...

Enterprises with transparent boundaries, decentralized organizational structure, and constantly increasing requirements on IT flexibility, is a novel generation of organizations of 2020s. This paper elaborates on how the Enterprise Architecture (EA) can better support such organizations. We analyze three types of organizational structure: centralized, federated and decentralized. First, we iden...