A Positive Hegemony?

2013 ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Amlan Bhusan
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Policy System ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Constructive Engagement ◽  
Social Decision Making

Amlan Bhusan raises important questions in “A Positive Hegemony? Arguing for a Universal Knowledge Regime led by an e-Governance ‘Savvy’ Global Knowledge Enterprise!” To him, there is a growing academic consciousness, regarding the use of e-governance, to deliver social goods in a better way. This voice advocates that more needs to be done by public institutions, governments, and more importantly, the academia, to develop e-governance as an enabler for social efficiency. Such developments would help reach debates and discussions on this area to the grassroots of the policy system. His chapter is neither a commentary of the application of e-governance to deliver social change nor a study of how different governments have handled this area around the world. Rather, it is a practicing consultant’s views of the power of e-governance to refine public choice and social decision making and how this process was enriched by a more vigorous role of the academia. Taking specific examples from the education sector, particularly universities, this chapter is a comment on some of the ways in which e-governance ‘can’ be handled across the education system and how lessons from the developed countries can be used to inspire similar revolutionary changes to the status quo in the developing world. His objective is to promote a greater role for the academia in the public policy making process. The idea is to support a more constructive engagement of the academia with the more vulnerable parts of the social system. Above all, he argues for the benefits of spreading the values of information democracy, right to access to information, among the people. He envisages that the power of a more vocal and active academia would be profound in how it could positively affect the information apartheid affecting many large sections of the developing world. He proposes greater research and development on the means of engaging with e-governance and to establish the mechanisms to enhance, converge, simplify, homogenize, and structuralize the knowledge and information enterprise of the global political and social systems.

A Positive Hegemony?

2015 ◽  
pp. 1535-1545
Author(s):  
Amlan Bhusan
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Policy System ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Constructive Engagement ◽  
Social Decision Making

Amlan Bhusan raises important questions in this chapter. To him, there is a growing academic consciousness, regarding the use of e-governance, to deliver social goods in a better way. This voice advocates that more needs to be done by public institutions, governments, and more importantly, the academia, to develop e-governance as an enabler for social efficiency. Such developments would help reach debates and discussions on this area to the grassroots of the policy system. His chapter is neither a commentary of the application of e-governance to deliver social change nor a study of how different governments have handled this area around the world. Rather, it is a practicing consultant's views of the power of e-governance to refine public choice and social decision making and how this process was enriched by a more vigorous role of the academia. Taking specific examples from the education sector, particularly universities, this chapter is a comment on some of the ways in which e-governance ‘can' be handled across the education system and how lessons from the developed countries can be used to inspire similar revolutionary changes to the status quo in the developing world. His objective is to promote a greater role for the academia in the public policy making process. The idea is to support a more constructive engagement of the academia with the more vulnerable parts of the social system. Above all, he argues for the benefits of spreading the values of information democracy, right to access to information, among the people. He envisages that the power of a more vocal and active academia would be profound in how it could positively affect the information apartheid affecting many large sections of the developing world. He proposes greater research and development on the means of engaging with e-governance and to establish the mechanisms to enhance, converge, simplify, homogenize, and structuralize the knowledge and information enterprise of the global political and social systems.

The Promise of Open Source Systems/Software in Developing Requisite E-Government Solutions for the Developing Countries

2015 ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeyinka Tella ◽  
Adetayo O. Tella
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open System ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Systems Software ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Developed Nations

E-Government open source system is now becoming commonplace. The e-Government open system requires at each review stage the relevant official input, the date, and the time when each application is processed. Free access to the status of an application makes applicants realize that there is no need to contact officials or to provide a bribe to complete the process. No doubt, e-Government open system is a very useful system currently being used by a majority of governments in developing world countries. However, extant review of literature has shown that some developing countries governments are now also making frantic effort to implement the open system although the practice seems to have gone farther in developed nations. In light of this, this chapter discusses e-Government open source system in developing countries and compares this to what is happening in the developed countries, examines the role OSS/SF has played in developing e-Government solutions or applications in the developing world, identifies the benefits and challenges of OSS/SF in the developing countries' context, and discusses possible ways forward. The chapter posits that open source plays a significant role in designing e-Government applications.

The Promise of Open Source Systems/Software in Developing Requisite E-Government Solutions for the Developing Countries

2015 ◽  
pp. 393-409
Author(s):  
Adeyinka Tella ◽  
Adetayo O. Tella
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open System ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Systems Software ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Developed Nations

E-Government open source system is now becoming commonplace. The e-Government open system requires at each review stage the relevant official input, the date, and the time when each application is processed. Free access to the status of an application makes applicants realize that there is no need to contact officials or to provide a bribe to complete the process. No doubt, e-Government open system is a very useful system currently being used by a majority of governments in developing world countries. However, extant review of literature has shown that some developing countries governments are now also making frantic effort to implement the open system although the practice seems to have gone farther in developed nations. In light of this, this chapter discusses e-Government open source system in developing countries and compares this to what is happening in the developed countries, examines the role OSS/SF has played in developing e-Government solutions or applications in the developing world, identifies the benefits and challenges of OSS/SF in the developing countries' context, and discusses possible ways forward. The chapter posits that open source plays a significant role in designing e-Government applications.

The Promise of Open Source Systems/Software in Developing Requisite E-Government Solutions for the Developing Countries

2014 ◽  
pp. 139-155
Author(s):  
Adeyinka Tella ◽  
Adetayo O. Tella
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open System ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Systems Software ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Developed Nations

E-Government open source system is now becoming commonplace. The e-Government open system requires at each review stage the relevant official input, the date, and the time when each application is processed. Free access to the status of an application makes applicants realize that there is no need to contact officials or to provide a bribe to complete the process. No doubt, e-Government open system is a very useful system currently being used by a majority of governments in developing world countries. However, extant review of literature has shown that some developing countries governments are now also making frantic effort to implement the open system although the practice seems to have gone farther in developed nations. In light of this, this chapter discusses e-Government open source system in developing countries and compares this to what is happening in the developed countries, examines the role OSS/SF has played in developing e-Government solutions or applications in the developing world, identifies the benefits and challenges of OSS/SF in the developing countries’ context, and discusses possible ways forward. The chapter posits that open source plays a significant role in designing e-Government applications.

A World Food Action Program

Worldview ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Hubert H. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Action Program ◽  
World Food ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Developed Countries

We have been waging a battle to improve the quality of life in the developing world for twenty-five years. Today this battle is being lost. As the world's military powers seek to reduce the risks of nuclear holocaust, new dangers to political and economic stability have arisen.The threat of widespread famine is on the increase. Fertilizer shortages grow, and the affluent continue to consume a disproportionate amount of the world's food resources. Worldwide inflation continues to take a heavy toll on the developing and the developed countries alike. This erodes political stability and depletes what little hard currency the poor nations have amassed.

Preliminary Study on Human Resources Guarantee in China’s Nuclear Safety Supervision

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiong Zhang ◽  
Jinrong Chen ◽  
Huixin Jin
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Nuclear Safety ◽  
Power Development ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The People ◽  
Nuclear Power Development ◽  
The Developed Countries

This paper illustrated the necessity of nuclear power development and the importance of nuclear safety supervision. Firstly, this paper briefly introduced the current situation of nuclear power development worldwide, nuclear safety supervision authorities in the developed countries and the situation of the human resources guarantee. Secondly, the paper highlighted the current situation of nuclear safety supervision in China, existing problems and what required to be urgently solved. Finally, this paper layout emphasis on the people-oriented idea and the necessity of improving nuclear safety supervision, and put forward several suggestions on the human resources guarantee in the nuclear safety supervision.

scholarly journals Remittances and Quality of Life of Emigrant Families in Kerala

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
RUKSANA. M.M. ◽  
Dr. K. GANGADHARAN
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Survey Report ◽  
The People ◽  
Unskilled Labour ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Impact

International migration has an important role in the economic development of every economy.In Kerala, most of the people prefer to emigrate for skilled and unskilled labour to the developed countries to improve the living standards oftheir families.According to Kerala Migration Survey Report, forevery 100 households in the state, there were 29.3 emigrants in 2014and the number of emigrants has increased graduallyover the years, from13.6 lakhs in 1998 to 24.0 lakhs in 2014.Kerala is receiving an increasing amount of money from abroad as workers’ remittances and total remittancesto Kerala in 2014 was estimated to be Rs71,142 crores.Remittances per household were Rs 86,843 in 2014 compared to Rs. 63,315 in 2011 and Rs. 57,227 in2008.The present study is to find out trend and growthof household remittance in Kerala and to analyze the impact of these remittance to the living standards of emigrant families.

scholarly journals Residual Risk of Hepatitis-B-Infected Blood Donations: Estimation Methods and Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil Kupek
Keyword(s):  
Blood Donation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Residual Risk ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Yield Model ◽  
Infected Blood ◽  
The People ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Low Prevalence

Despite a considerable reduction of the risk of HBV-infected blood donation entering blood supply (residual risk) due to improved screening by HBV NAT in the developed countries, the bulk of the people with HBV living in the developing countries still needs to be screened by serologic tests such as HBsAg and anti-HBc. Many of these countries lack resources for implementing NAT and are likely to remain so in the next decade or longer, thus depending on the HBV residual risk monitoring based on serologic testing and corresponding estimation methods. This paper reviews main HBV residual risk findings worldwide and the methods based on serology used for their calculation with repeat donors, as well as their extension to the first-time donors. Two artificial datasets with high (4.36%) and low (0.48%) HBV prevalence were generated to test the performance of five methods: the original incidence/window-period model based solely on HBsAg, its modification by Soldan in 2003, the Müller-Breitkreutz model, the HBsAg yield model, and its extension to include anti-HBc seroconversions within a year. The last model was closest to the true values of residual risk and had smallest variation of the estimates in both high and low prevalence data. It may be used for residual risk evaluation in relatively small samples, such as regional blood banks data.

scholarly journals SETTING THE ANALYSIS OF NATURAL RESOURCE USE IN CONTINENTAL AREAS OF INDONESIA BY APPLICABILITY CONVENTION LAW OF PBB 1982

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Abdul Munsharif
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Geneva Convention ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Shelf Area ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Law ◽  
Continental Shelf Area ◽  
The Developed Countries

Before the entry into force of UNCLOS in 1982, the continental shelf area governed by Article 1 of the Convention IV Geneva Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1958, which was implemented a by Act No. 1 of 1973. The setting through 1958 Geneva Convention on the Law of the Sea benefit only for the developed countries that have the advanced technology. Although UNCLOS 1982 has been in force, but the status of Indonesian Act No. 1 of 1973 still impose as the implementation of the Geneva Conventions Of 1958. Several agreements with neighboring countries are being held between the years 1969- 19972, of course it is very detrimental to the Indonesian Government. In this case the Act No. 1 of 1973, adjusted to international law, namely UNCLOS in 1982 is expected that the regulating of the utilization of natural resources in the continental shelf of Republic Indonesia can provide a fair arrangement. It is Necessary to remember that there is a difference in perception between the Act No. 1 of 1973 with the UNCLOS in 1982 in the matter of setting the area of the continental shelf.

scholarly journals Freedom of the Markets versus Good Governance

Competitio ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-61
Author(s):  
László Muraközy
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Important Conclusion ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Historical Past

The market and the state, operation and characteristics of two institutions of key importance in the modern mixed economies, are investigated for the former socialist countries in this study. After two decades it can be seen more clearly what system has been established in the region, how it operates, and what its characteristics are. In the first part of the with the help of international comparisons we examine how free the market is, how good the rules are, and how much they help, or hinder, the fulfilment of its function. From an other aspect we compare the scope of the good governance and the size, the freedom and efficiency of the state. According to the evidence of the international studies examined, the former socialist countries established the forms of the market institutional system relatively quickly, but the operation and quality of these lagged significantly behind those of the developed countries. Also important conclusion of the study is that by the first decade of the millennium the characteristics of the former socialist countries are increasingly diverging from one another. Both the characteristics of the earlier socialism, and the more distant historical past which can be caught in the act within it, had and have an effect on the economic and social systems now established in Eastern and Central Europe. Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes: H1, P17, P27, P35

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