372 research outputs found
Is Web 2.0 a threat to representative democracy? A deliberation through the Australian carbon tax debate
The influence of social media is intensifying in global societies. As the technologies become cheaper and the acceptance of Web 2.0 becomes widespread, the power of social media on citizens, particularly the integrated influence of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs cannot be underestimated. In this paper, we attempt a deliberation through the lens of carbon tax debate in Australia where the influence of social media has perhaps begun to portend the role of elected representation in this representative democracy
E-Governance: Strategy for Mitigating Non-Inclusion of Citizens in Policy Making in Nigeria
The Nigerian federation that currently has 36 states structure adopted the Weberian Public Administrative system
before now as an ideal way of running government, which was characterized with the traditional way of doing things without
recourse to the deployment of Information Communication Technology (ICT). Today e-governance is seen as a paradigm
shift from the previous way of governance. Research has shown that, the adoption and implementation of e-governance is
more likely to bring about effective service delivery, mitigate corruption and ultimately enhance citizens’ participation in
governmental affairs. However, it has been argued that infrastructure such as regular electricity power and access to the
Internet, in addition to a society with high rate of literacy level are required to effectively implement and realize the
potentials of e-governance for improved delivery of services. Due to the difficulties currently experienced, developing nations
need to adequately prepare for the implementation of e-governance on the platform of Information Communication
Technology (ICT). Hence, this study seeks to examine whether the adoption and implementation of e-governance in the
context of Nigeria would mitigate the hitherto non-inclusion of citizens in the formulation and implementation of
government policies aimed at enhanced development. To achieve the objective of the study, data were sourced and analyzed
majorly by examining government websites of 20 states in the Nigerian federation to ascertain if there are venues for citizens
to interact with government in the area of policy making and feedback on government actions, as a way of promoting
participatory governance. The study revealed that the adoption and implementation of e-governance in the country is yet to
fully take place. This is due to lack of infrastructure, low level of literacy rate and government inability to provide the
necessary infrastructure for e-governance to materialize. The paper therefore, recommends among others the need for the
Federal Government to involve a sound and clear policy on how to go about the adoption and implementation of egovernance
through deliberate effort at increasing budgetary allocation towards infrastructural development and mass
education of citizens
The Impact of e-Democracy in Political Stability of Nigeria
The history of the Nigerian electoral process has been hitherto characterized by violence stemming from disputes
in election outcomes. For instance, violence erupted across some states in Northern Nigeria when results indicated that a
candidate who was popular in that part of the country was losing the election leading to avoidable loss of lives. Beside, this
dispute in election outcome lingers for a long time in litigation at the electoral tribunals which distracts effective governance.
However, the increasing penetrating use of ICTs in Nigeria is evident in the electoral processes with consequent shift in the
behavior of actors in the democratic processes, thus changing the ways Nigerians react to election outcomes. This paper
examines the trend in the use ICT in the Nigerian political system and its impact on the stability of the polity. It assesses the
role of ICT in recent electoral processes and compares its impact on the outcome of the process in lieu of previous
experiences in the Nigeria. Furthermore, the paper also examines the challenges and risks of implementing e-Democracy in
Nigeria and its relationship to the economy in the light of the socio-economic situation of the country. The paper adopted
qualitative approach in data gathering and analysis. From the findings, the paper observed that e-democracy is largely
dependent on the level of ICT adoption, which is still at its lowest ebb in the country. It recognizes the challenges in the
provision of ICT infrastructure and argues that appropriate low-cost infrastructure applicable to the Nigerian condition can
be made available to implement e-democracy and thus arouse the interest of the populace in governance, increase the
number of voters, and enhance transparency, probity and accountability, and participation in governance as well as help
stabilize the nascent democrac
Understanding the development of digital governance : a study of the relations between institutions, organisations, and actors in the member states of the OECD and EU
Defence date: 11 October 2019Examining Board:
Prof. Alexander Trechsel, University of Lucerne (Supervisor);
Prof. Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute;
Prof. Jane Fountain, University of Massachusetts Amherst;
Prof. Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of TechnologyThis thesis is concerned with the development of digital governance. The main goal of the thesis is to analyse and explain patterns and levels of digital governance through the lens of actorcentred institutionalism and institutional change. More concretely, the research question of this thesis is: “To what extent do changes in institutional arrangements, organisational processes, and actors’ preferences influence changing patterns and levels of digital governance over time and across space?” To answer this question, this study employs a multi-method approach, combining statistical analysis and case study research. The quantitative part of the thesis consists of time-series cross-sectional analysis of forty-one countries over the period of 2003- 2016. The qualitative part includes two in-depth case-studies, Estonia and the USA, and traces the development of digital governance from the early 1990s onward. One of the main findings of this study is that the level of digital governance is largely determined by institutional factors. This finding is supported both by the statistical and the qualitative analyses of the thesis. However, the findings of the in-depth case studies also suggest that the effect of institutional arrangements may vary across countries over time as it has been consistently stronger in the USA than in Estonia, and it has been increasing over time in Estonia. I find modest support to the hypothesis that organisational processes affect the level of digital governance. Regarding the role of actors, the results are not clear-cut, and they are rather surprising. The statistical analysis reveals that digital governance is negatively affected by politicians’ preferences but positively influenced by the private sector whereas the public has no effect. The qualitative study partly confirms these findings, indicating that politicians play a minor direct role in the development of digital governance. Instead, progress in this area has been mainly in the hands of government officials, which have been supported both by the IT sector and favourable legislative frameworks. Overall, this study suggests that digital governance has not been, until 2016, a politicised issue, and this has created good conditions for government officials to take the lead in the development of digital governance
Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns
Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse
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