E-Government for Rural Development in Tanzania

2015 ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Kisusu ◽  
D. M. Bahati ◽  
G. R. Kisusu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Technology Service ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Ineffective Policy

This chapter presents the importance of developing rural areas with an emphasis on good governance and poverty alleviation through the use of electronic government in Tanzania. With such concern, the authors show that rural areas are as significant as the economy of most of the developing countries, including Tanzania. As such, putting sufficient efforts on rural development is unavoidable for rapid development. Further, the authors note how Tanzania improves its rural areas through the use of e-government, but efforts are constrained by the existence of poor Information Communication Technology service providers, ineffective policy, and unreliability of rural electricity. In order to address such shortfalls, the authors propose several solutions that could motivate the increase in the use of rural e-government and revise rural development policy.

E-Government for Rural Development in Tanzania

2019 ◽  
pp. 1678-1685
Author(s):  
R. W. Kisusu ◽  
D. M. Bahati ◽  
G. R. Kisusu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Technology Service ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Ineffective Policy

This chapter presents the importance of developing rural areas with an emphasis on good governance and poverty alleviation through the use of electronic government in Tanzania. With such concern, the authors show that rural areas are as significant as the economy of most of the developing countries, including Tanzania. As such, putting sufficient efforts on rural development is unavoidable for rapid development. Further, the authors note how Tanzania improves its rural areas through the use of e-government, but efforts are constrained by the existence of poor Information Communication Technology service providers, ineffective policy, and unreliability of rural electricity. In order to address such shortfalls, the authors propose several solutions that could motivate the increase in the use of rural e-government and revise rural development policy.

scholarly journals Assessing The Research Framework And Institutional Context For Rural Development Policy

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-109
Author(s):  
David A. McGranahan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
New Production ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
New Information ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Rural Development Policy

The economic context for rural development has changed markedly since the 1970s. While natural resource industries have continued to decline in importance as rural employers, the internationalization of markets, reorganization of industries, new production technologies, and the rapid development of new information technologies have eroded the competitive position of many rural areas with respect to other industries. In the South, as well as in the rest of the country, the critical rural issue for the 1990s is whether rural areas will be able to find niches to replace those they lost in the 1980s. Thus far, the new economy has been primarily an urban economy, and most rural areas have been left out. This has serious implications for rural development policy.

scholarly journals EU Rural Policy’s Capacity to Facilitate a Just Sustainability Transition of the Rural Areas

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 5050
Author(s):  
Barbara Wieliczko ◽  
Agnieszka Kurdyś-Kujawska ◽  
Zbigniew Floriańczyk
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Sustainability Transition ◽  
Development Capacity ◽  
Just Sustainability ◽  
The Eu

The sustainability transition of rural areas is a must due to rapid climate changes and biodiversity loss. Given the limited resources of rural communities, policy should facilitate a just sustainability transition of the EU rural areas. The analysis of EU development policies, past performance and the envisaged scope of reform, presented in this study point to a serious inconsistency between the declaration and implementation of relevant policies. Namely, the marginal role rural areas perform in common agricultural policy and cohesion policy; a result of the lack of a complex approach to rural development. The analysis was based on the concept of good governance and took a multi-level perspective. It advocates territorial justice as an approach that should be at the core of creating a comprehensive policy for rural areas in the EU, including their diversity and empowering local communities to choose the transition pathway that is most in line with their current situation and development capacity. This analysis fills a gap in research on the evolution of the rural development policy in the EU. This research can inform the reprioritization and intensification of efforts to create equitable policies for EU rural development.

scholarly journals A vidéki térségek turizmusalapú fejlesztési lehetőségei a Siklósi járás példáján

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Melissza Zita Lempek ◽  
◽  
Róbert Tésits ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Space Use ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Tourism Economy

The study aims to answer the question concerning how effectively cities of the Siklós district can involve the surrounding settlements in the tourism economy, thereby promoting the development of rural areas. In addition to local governments and tourism organizations, our important goal is to understand the ideas of service providers and their guests related to rural development, as well as the space use characteristics of the latter group. The key method is the questionnaire survey, the target group of which is the mayors of all settlements in the district, as well as the guests of the accommodations belonging to the different product types. The primary sources are based on two further series of interviews, which explore the opinions of service providers and professional organizations. Empirical experience shows that thematic trips can play a prominent role in the development of the less frequented small settlements. The essence of this is to connect the places offering traditional crafts and local products by a bike route.

scholarly journals The Malawi 2002 food crisis: the rural development challenge

2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dorward ◽  
Jonathan Kydd
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Coordination Failure ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Opportunistic Behaviour ◽  
Market Liberalisation

The recent food crisis in Malawi has drawn stark attention to the failures of development policies over the last forty years to create wealth and develop a robust economy or the markets on which such an economy must depend. Current market liberalisation policies have achieved at best mixed success in addressing the generic problems inhibiting smallholder agricultural development: low returns to farmers' and service providers' investments, with high risks from natural shocks, price variations, coordination failure and opportunistic behaviour. Post-independence institutional mechanisms in Malawi were more successful in addressing some of these problems, in particular those of coordination risk, although external and internal difficulties led to increasing costs and declining effectiveness of these mechanisms, and to their collapse. They do provide, however, important lessons about the different failures of both market intervention and market liberalisation policies. We suggest and discuss a set of critical elements needed for economic development and wealth creation in poor rural areas, and propose four basic principles to guide the search for, and design and implementation of, effective rural development strategies and policies.

scholarly journals Quality of life in rural areas: A topic for the Rural Development policy?

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 25-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Brauer ◽  
Mirek Dymitrow
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Economic Perspectives ◽  
Categorization System

Abstract Contemporary transformations of rural areas involve changes in land uses, economic perspectives, connectivity, livelihoods, but also in lifestyles, whereupon a traditional view of ‘the rural’ and, consequently, of ‘rural development’ no longer holds. Accordingly, EU’s 2007-2013 Rural Development policy (RDP) is one framework to incorporate aspects labelled as quality of life (QOL) alongside traditional rural tenets. With a new rendition of the RDP underway, this paper scopes the content and extent of the expired RDP regarding its incorporation of QOL, in order to better identify considerations for future policy making. Using novel methodology called topic modelling, a series of latent semantic structures within the RDP could be unravelled and re-interpreted via a dual categorization system based on RDP’s own view on QOL, and on definitions provided by independent research. Corroborated by other audits, the findings indicate a thematic overemphasis on agriculture, with the focus on QOL being largely insignificant. Such results point to a rationale different than the assumed one, at the same time reinforcing an outdated view of rurality in the face of the ostensibly fundamental turn towards viewing rural areas in a wider, more humanistic, perspective. This unexpected issue of underrepresentation is next addressed through three possible drivers: conceptual (lingering productionist view of the rural), ideological (capitalist prerogative preventing non-pecuniary values from entering policy) and material (institutional lock-ins incapable of accommodating significant deviations from an agricultural focus). The paper ends with a critical discussion and some reflections on the broader concept of rurality.

scholarly journals Assessing The Research Framework And Institutional Context For Rural Development Policy: Discussion

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Joyce E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Persistent Poverty ◽  
Policy Discussion ◽  
Economic Well Being

A discussion of rural development policy could focus on a number of issues surrounding the economic well-being of rural communities and rural residents. Research shows that rural America is experiencing many problems including widespread stagnation in job creation, reduced rates of population growth, substantial outmigration, and underdeveloped human resources (Brown et al.). According to Rasmussen, the first rural development efforts (e.g., improving physical characteristics of rural areas) met with quick and quantifiable success, but unemployment, persistent poverty, and inadequate housing may be more intractable.

scholarly journals Strategies For Improving Coordination Between The Public and Private Institutions For Agricultural and Rural Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Kaman Nainggolan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
People Participation ◽  
The Impact

<p><strong>English<br /></strong>Agriculture/agribusiness plays a strategic role in labor absorption, capital formation, foreign exchange, providing food supply, and supply a market for domestically produced industrial goods. Globalization has suddenly changed the way leaders of nations in managing agriculture/agribusiness development. Many countries are more open, moving toward democracy. Through the impact of decentralization, the government is shifting from dominating development in the past to people participation. This implies that the private sector will play a more active role in agriculture/agribusiness and rural development. With the new vision, agriculture should not be seen as a separate sector (on-farm), but in a more broad way which is agribusiness consisting of all related activities from upstream to downstream agribusiness subsystem. Good governance is a prerequisite to encourage private institutions to participate in agriculture/agribusiness and rural development. Policy measures to improve coordination between public and private institutions includes: infrastructure development, development of seed industry, develop and strengthen agro-industry in rural areas, develop and strengthen market information, market restructuring and trade policy, development of the private sector, micro, small, and medium size enterprises, macroeconomic stability, land market deregulation, strengthening of governance, environment sustainability, and improving rural productivity. All of these measures must be transparent and communicated to all stakeholders in agriculture/agribusiness and rural development.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Indonesian<br /></strong>Sektor pertanian memiliki peranan yang strategis dalam penyerapan tenaga kerja, pembentukan kapital, penyediaan pangan, dan menyadiakan bahan baku untuk industri dalam negeri. Globalisasi secara serta merta talah merubah kebijakan pemimpin-pemimpin nasional dalam menangani pembangunan pertanian dan agribisnis. Berbagai negara menjadi lebih terbuka menuju ke arah demokrasi. Melalui dampak desentralisasi, pemerintah telah beralih dari sikap mendominasi di masa lalu menuju pada partisipasi masyarakat. Hal ini berimplikasi kepada semakin besarnya peran sektor swasta dalam pembangunan pertanian di pedesaan. Dengan visi baru ini, maka pertanian tidak lagi di pandang sebagai sektor yang terpisah-pisah, namun menjadi lebih luas, dimana mencakup aktivitas-aktivitas yang terkaIt mulai dari subsistem hulu sampai hilir. Pemerintahan yang baik dituntut untuk mendorong koordinasi antara institusi swasta dan publik mencakup: pengembangan infrastruktur, pengembangan industri benih, pengembangan dan penguatan agroindustri di pedesaan, pengembangan informasi pasar, merestruktur pasar dan kebijakan perdagangan, pengembangan sektor swasta, usaha mikro, kecil, menengah, stabilitas ekonomi makro, deregulasi pasar lahan, penguatan pemerintahan, keberlanjutan lingkungan, dan peningkatan produktivitas pedesan. Semua kebijakan ini mestilah dilakukan secara transparan dan dikomunikasikan kepada stakeholders yang terlibat dalam pembangunan pertanian dan pedesaan.</p>

scholarly journals PELAYANAN PUBLIK MELALUI ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT: UPAYA MEMINIMALISIR PRAKTEK MALADMINISTRASI DALAM MENINGKATAN PUBLIC SERVICE

SASI ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick S Holle
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Policy And Strategy ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Information And Communication

Direct contact in the provision of services provide great opportunities happening maladministration practice (failure to provide service). Therefore, it needs an effort to minimize or even eliminate the practice maladministration by utilizing information and communication technology (ICT) in the frame of electronic-government to service delivery, so that direct contact between service providers and service users no longer occur. In Indonesia, the opportunity for that already exist with the issuance of Presidential Instruction No. 3 of 2003 on National Policy and Strategy Development of electronic-Government (electronic- Government framework), with the aim of supporting the change to democratic governance, facilitating communication between central and local governments, ensure the implementation of the principles of good governance, and facilitating the transformation towards an information society.

scholarly journals The Problem of Labor Loss under the Background of Rural Revitalization and Countermeasure Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 141-145
Author(s):  
Shidong Zhang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Labor ◽  
Rural Revitalization ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions

In the Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the recent past, it was pointed out that in order to achieve comprehensive prosperity and eliminate poverty completely, my country must focus on the “three rural issues” and implement the rural revitalization strategy. As a large agricultural country, our country has a large rural population, and the rural land is relatively vast. Therefore, if our country wants to achieve full prosperity, it must promote the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, so as to enable the rapid development of rural areas. Looking at this problem from a micro perspective, there are still certain restrictions and constraints, such as the serious loss of rural labor, resulting in an empty nest phenomenon, or the serious aging of the rural population. These reasons all restrict rural development and rural modernization. The advancement of urbanization. This article mainly focuses on the problem of rural labor loss under the current rural revitalization strategy, and further proposes countermeasures and suggestions to solve the problem in response to this phenomenon, in order to provide a certain reference and reference for rural development.

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