Download or read book Age Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa written by Vera Roos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research written by Anna Urbaniak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook presents established and innovative perspectives on involving older adults as co-creators in ageing research. It reorients research and policy toward more inclusive and adequate designs that capture the voices and needs of older adults. The Handbook: introduces types of participatory approaches in ageing research; highlights key methodological aspects of these approaches; gives insights from projects across different cultural contexts and academic disciplines, showing ways in which older participants can be involved in co-designing different stages of the research cycle; examines key issues to consider when involving older participants at each step of the research process; includes the voices of older adults directly; draws out conclusions and points ways forward for future research. This Handbook will be essential reading for researchers and students interested in the field of ageing and/ or participatory methods, as well as for those policy stakeholders in the fields of ageing and demographic change, social and public policy, or health and wellbeing who are interested in involving older adults in policy processes. It will be useful for third-sector advocacy organizations and international non-governmental and public agencies working either in citizen involvement/participation or the ageing sector.
Download or read book The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing written by Marvin Formosa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century. It focuses on three priority areas: older persons and development; advancing health and well-being into old age; and ensuring enabling and supportive environments. This book brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on and assesses the success and failures of governments to implement its recommendations. Despite its pivotal importance in international ageing policy, the MIPAA has been relatively neglected by academics in their writings and studies. This book mitigates this analytical and empirical cavity. Each chapter focuses on one specific geographical region and addresses five key themes: national ageing situation; twenty years of MIPAA; ensuring ageing with dignity; healthy and active ageing in a sustainable world; and priorities for the future. It presents an overall summary of the findings, future challenges and opportunities related to ageing, recommendations for future actions to be taken, and policy adjustments needed. The authors also present lessons that were learnt from managing the impact of COVID-19 on older people, together with an outlook on the most immediate priorities for the future so that the recommendations in the MIPAA are achieved in post-COVID-19 and sustainable ethical scenarios. An important contribution towards the advancement of ageing policy, the book will be indispensable to students and researchers of gerontology, ageing, and health. It will also be of interest to policy makers, geriatricians, dementia care specialists, social policy makers responsible for ensuring active and healthy ageing, and all public sector departments which have specific responsibilities towards improving the quality of life of older adults.
Download or read book Rural Gerontology written by Mark Skinner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology. With a focus on rural regions, small towns and villages, which have the highest rates of population ageing worldwide, Rural Gerontology is aimed at understanding what it means for rural people, communities and institutions to be at the forefront of twenty-first-century demographic change. The book offers important insights from rural ageing studies into today’s most pressing gerontological problems. With chapters from more than 65 established and emerging rural ageing researchers, it is the first synthesis of knowledge about rural gerontology, harnessing a burgeoning interdisciplinary scholarship on the rural dimensions of ageing, old age and older populations. With a view to advancing a critical understanding of rural ageing populations, this book will have an overreaching impact across the social sciences by drawing on advancements in understandings of rural ageing from social, environmental, geographical and critical gerontology to facilitate a comprehensive exploration of the diversity, complexity and implications of the ageing process in rural settings. Bringing together valuable international perspectives, this book makes a timely contribution to gerontology, rural studies and the social sciences, and will appeal to scholars and researchers across USA and Canada, UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, China and countries in Africa, South America and South-East Asia.
Download or read book Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World written by Yingqin Zheng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2022, which was supposed to be held in Lima, Peru, in May 2021, but was held virtually instead due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers present a wide range of perspectives and disciplines including (but not limited to) public administration, entrepreneurship, business administration, information technology for development, information management systems, organization studies, philosophy, and management. They are organized in the following topical sections: digital platforms and gig economy; education and health; inclusion and participation; and business innovation and data privacy.
Download or read book Empowering Students and Maximising Inclusiveness and Equality through ICT written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with access to participation in education as a potential to construct inclusiveness and equality.
Download or read book Electronic Government written by Ida Lindgren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2019, held in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, in September 2019, in conjunction with the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP International Conference on Electronic Participation (ePart 2019) and the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM 2019). The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: E-Government Foundations; E-Government Services and Open Government; Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects; AI, Data Analytics and Automated Decision Making; and Smart Cities.
Download or read book An Information and Communication Technology Hub ICT Hub for Rural Communities written by S. J. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose of the study is to develop a "Multipurpose Community Service Centre" model, and call it then an ICT Hub (Information and Communication Technologies) model to deliver integrating services to rural communinities according to their specific needs. The research will a)investigate and evaluate various case studies, models and influecing factors on integrated service delivery through Community Service Centres in South Africa and abroad; b)conduct a case study of the Ikageng Multi-purpose Community Centre in Itsoseng; c)based on above findings develop a model (ICT Hub) to rural communities of South Africa.
Download or read book Strategic Role of ICT in South African Public Service written by John D. Otumile and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and Communications Technology has been accepted globally as an enabler of public and private sector businesses. This study argues that the correct positioning of a chief information officer (CIO) is vital to achieving effective service delivery. On the contrary, empirical evidence shows that CIOs in the South African public sector tend not to have the necessary influence to use ICTs strategically to change the plight of the millions of poor South Africans, through service delivery. Using Structuration Theory as a lens, the contribution of this study is towards improving the rigor with which we understand chief information officers and their place in the improvement of South African public service delivery.
Download or read book Digital Access and E Government Perspectives from Developing and Emerging Countries written by Mothataesi Sebina, Peter Mazebe II and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to government information faces many roadblocks in developing and emerging economies due to lack of appropriate legal frameworks and other requisite information laws. However, there is hope that many countries are now recognizing the importance of providing access to public information resources. Digital Access and E-Government: Perspectives from Developing and Emerging Countries explores the relationships that exist between access to information laws and e-government. It shares the strategies used in encouraging access to information in a variety of jurisdictions and environments, to be of use to e-government designers and practitioners, policymakers, and university professors.
Download or read book International Business Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 2441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business transactions and partnerships across borders have become easier than ever due to globalization and global digital connectivity. As part of this shift in the business sphere, managers, executives, and strategists across industries must acclimate themselves with the challenges and opportunities for conducting business globally. International Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications presents the latest research innovations focusing on cross-cultural communications and training, international relations, multinational enterprises, outsourcing, international business strategies, and competitive advantage in the global marketplace. This publication is an exhaustive multi-volume work essential to academic and corporate libraries who serve researchers, scholars, business executives and professionals, and graduate-level business students.
Download or read book Digital Transformation in South Africa written by Tankiso Moloi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of E Government Diffusion Assessment Tool for Service Delivery In South Africa s Municipalities written by Mkhonto Mkhonto and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While e-Government has been in existence since the 1990s, with the intention of improving service delivery to citizens and improving efficiency within the government setup, it is safe to say that its implementation and success to date can be deemed mediocre at the least. The South African government entrusted the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) with the responsibility of developing and coordination of e-Government strategy to address issues across all departments and sectors. Several Information and Communication Technology (ICT) initiatives have been sanctioned by the government at provincial and national level albeit at varying degrees of success. Prior to the appointment of DPSA, most of these initiatives had been uncoordinated and isolated which has probably led to little or no progress so far. In a quest to accelerate e-Government solutions, the DPSA has placed emphasis on government-to- government (G2G), government to business and citizen (G2BC), government to citizen (G2C) and the related infrastructure which helped these projects to take off smoothly. Some examples of the initiatives in place include e-filing, e-health and e-education. The South African Revenue Services (SARS) and the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) have had success with their respective e-filing initiatives. Although queues are still being seen at these departments, most taxpayers, tax practitioners and trademark and patent applicants have embraced this electronic technology and thus alleviating the challenge of queuing for long periods. However, the same cannot be said for other initiatives such as e-health and e-education. Consequently, a need to look into e-Government diffusion in South African municipalities was birthed. This research used a modified model derived and adopted from Task-Technology-Fit (TTF) Model and Fit-Viability Model. The new model e-Government Diffusion Assessment Model (EDAM) was proposed with 12 variables. It was tested for validity and reliability. Data was collected using Likert seven-point scale questionnaire, of which 100 responses were usable and was analysed quantitatively. The hypothesis of the research model was tested using the regression analysis technique. The findings in this study indicate that e-Government has been adopted and that it is at the advanced stages of development. The results in this research show that the rate of diffusion of e-Government in the three selected municipalities across South Africa is seventy-five percent (75%). This percentage suggests that strides have been taken to embrace ICT in local government. The results also indicate that social norms have strong influence on utilisation, utilisation has strong influence on organisational performance while task-technology-fit has strong influence on utilisation. The results also indicate that task-technology-fit, utilisation and viability had a very strong influence on organisational performance. In conclusion, the findings in this study indicate that the proposed model can be used to see whether the factors are favourable for diffusion of e-Government applications. The organisational performance in this study is in line with the mandate of the municipality in delivering service to the community. This research contributed to the body of knowledge by providing an increased understanding of the information systems, diffusion, IT adoption and e-Government studies in South Africa’s municipalities. In order to improve service delivery and minimise service delivery protest it is recommended that municipalities around South Africa adopt the model as outlined in this study.
Download or read book Corruption and Reform in India written by Jennifer Bussell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks why some governments improve public services more effectively than others. Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital technologies may be used to facilitate citizens' access to the state, Jennifer Bussell's analysis provides unanticipated insights into this fundamental question. In contrast to factors such as economic development or electoral competition, this study highlights the importance of access to rents, which can dramatically shape the opportunities and threats of reform to political elites. Drawing on a sub-national analysis of twenty Indian states, a field experiment, statistical modeling, case studies, interviews of citizens, bureaucrats, and politicians, and comparative data from South Africa and Brazil, Bussell shows that the extent to which politicians rely on income from petty and grand corruption is closely linked to variation in the timing, management, and comprehensiveness of reforms. The book also illuminates the importance of electoral constituencies and coalition politics in shaping policy outcomes.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on E Government in Emerging Economies Adoption E Participation and Legal Frameworks written by Bwalya, Kelvin Joseph and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of knowledge on contemporary experiences on technological, societal and legal setups of e-Government implementation in emerging economies"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Public Administration in Africa written by Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from leading regional scholars, Public Administration in Africa: Performance and Challenges examines the complexities of the art of governance from the unique African perspective. The editors bring together a cohesive study of the major issues and regions by taking an analytic approach with the strong problem-solution application. Regions addressed range from South Africa, Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius, and Botswana. Themes include colonialism, reform, poverty, economy, decentralization, financing, media, political structures, and more. Beginning with an analysis of the relationship of policy design and its destination, service delivery, the book discusses the historical development of a state that has gone through upheavals in government and explores a decayed political economy that ultimately results in a need for sweeping measures. The text examines the issues emerging policy-makers in Africa must tackle, namely poverty and the denial or lack of resources to keep a dignified human life. It highlights how the media can be a catalyst for good governance and provides analytical aspects of implementing good governance reforms. The book concludes with an examination of the concepts of decentralization and devolution in measuring service delivery performance and an exploration of Africa’s economic success story. It also details the African Peer Review Mechanisms in selected African countries and provides a holistic analysis of local government functioning in Africa. These features and more make it an interdisciplinary reference for diverse social, economic, political, and administrative issues.
Download or read book Rural Finance for Food Security for the Poor written by Manfred Zeller and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broader role for rural finance for food security. The saving and borrowing behavior of the food-insecure poor. Innovative rural finance for the poor: a food security perspective. Conclusions for research and policy.
