Evaluation of Arab Municipal Websites

2011 ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Hana Abdullah Al-Nuaim
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
The Way

High speed wireless networks and mobile and web-based services are changing the way we, as consumers of information, communicate, learn, do business and receive services. Successful e-commerce models have raised the expectations of citizens to have government agencies and organizations provide public services that are timely and efficient. With the growth and development of Arab cities, especially in the capitals, life becomes a little bit harder for citizens dealing with highly bureaucratic government agencies as their demands for basic services increase. Although e-readiness in the region has grown considerably with impressive progress, Arab cities have been clearly absent from studies on worldwide e-municipal websites. In this study, an evaluation checklist for was used to evaluate official municipal websites of Arab capitals. The study found that these websites were not citizen centered, suffered from fundamental problems, had some features that were inoperable and did not follow basic guidelines for any municipal website. These sites were dominated by aesthetics and technical novelties alone, providing inactive information rather than the inclusion of interactive e-services with immediate feedback and easy to use, navigable interfaces.

Evaluation of Arab Municipal Websites

2012 ◽  
pp. 1170-1185
Author(s):  
Hana Abdullah Al-Nuaim
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
The Way

High speed wireless networks and mobile and web-based services are changing the way we, as consumers of information, communicate, learn, do business and receive services. Successful e-commerce models have raised the expectations of citizens to have government agencies and organizations provide public services that are timely and efficient. With the growth and development of Arab cities, especially in the capitals, life becomes a little bit harder for citizens dealing with highly bureaucratic government agencies as their demands for basic services increase. Although e-readiness in the region has grown considerably with impressive progress, Arab cities have been clearly absent from studies on worldwide e-municipal websites. In this study, an evaluation checklist for was used to evaluate official municipal websites of Arab capitals. The study found that these websites were not citizen centered, suffered from fundamental problems, had some features that were inoperable and did not follow basic guidelines for any municipal website. These sites were dominated by aesthetics and technical novelties alone, providing inactive information rather than the inclusion of interactive e-services with immediate feedback and easy to use, navigable interfaces.

E-Government Portals Personalization

2011 ◽  
pp. 310-315
Author(s):  
Giorgos Laskaridis ◽  
Konstantinos Markellos
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Services ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

Several governments across the world enhance their attempt to provide efficient, advanced, and modern services to their users (citizens and businesses) based on information and computer technologies (ICT) and especially the Web. The remarkable acceptance of this powerful tool has changed the way of conducting various transactions and offers citizens, businesses, and public authorities’ limitless options and opportunities. Besides citizens’ awareness and expectations of Web-based, public services have also increased in recent times.

Case study 3

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewan Ferlie ◽  
Sue Dopson ◽  
Chris Bennett ◽  
Michael D. Fischer ◽  
Jean Ledger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Management Consulting ◽  
Organizational Redesign ◽  
Management Consultants ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Financial Interests ◽  
The Way

The chapter discusses management consultants and consulting knowledge in health care, highlighting significant expenditure on consultancy and how consultants have shaped thinking in public services, which some critics suggest has served consultants’ own (financial) interests. The chapter then discusses the way consultants mobilize management knowledge and frame clients’ problems and solutions. It discusses an empirical case study of a consultancy project to redesign NHS organizations to make substantial ‘efficiency savings’. Here, consultants framed the NHS’s problem and solution, and then imposed an organizational redesign. Local NHS managers and clinicians framed the NHS’s problem differently, doubting the consultants’ framing and proposing redesign, but feeling unable to engage in dialogue about these concerns. Consequently, they engaged with the project in a calculated and defensive way, superficially accepting the redesign while waiting for its implementation to fail. Thus, the chapter demonstrates framing politics surrounding management consulting knowledge.

scholarly journals ccNetViz: a WebGL-based JavaScript library for visualization of large networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (16) ◽  
pp. 4527-4529
Author(s):  
Ales Saska ◽  
David Tichy ◽  
Robert Moore ◽  
Achilles Rasquinha ◽  
Caner Akdas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Biology ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Open Source ◽  
High Speed ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Supplementary Information ◽  
Network Visualization ◽  
Supplementary Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Flow Of Information

Abstract Summary Visualizing a network provides a concise and practical understanding of the information it represents. Open-source web-based libraries help accelerate the creation of biologically based networks and their use. ccNetViz is an open-source, high speed and lightweight JavaScript library for visualization of large and complex networks. It implements customization and analytical features for easy network interpretation. These features include edge and node animations, which illustrate the flow of information through a network as well as node statistics. Properties can be defined a priori or dynamically imported from models and simulations. ccNetViz is thus a network visualization library particularly suited for systems biology. Availability and implementation The ccNetViz library, demos and documentation are freely available at http://helikarlab.github.io/ccNetViz/. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

scholarly journals Erratic electric power challenges in Africa and the way forward via the adoption of human biogas resources

2021 ◽  
pp. 014459872110036
Author(s):  
Moses E Emetere ◽  
O Agubo ◽  
L Chikwendu
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
Energy Devices ◽  
Gas Generators ◽  
Financial Base ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
The Way

This paper examines a broad spectrum of challenges plaguing electric power supply in Africa. The challenges have lingered very long that policymakers, energy companies, and government agencies have shown docility in tackling the problem headlong. The increasing human population and technological innovations are evidence that the more the problem lingers, the more it becomes insurmountable. In this paper, it was proposed the lingering challenges can be solved using the standalone system of power generation. The renewable energy option and its adaptability were highlighted to guide standalone users on the way forward. The growing population in Africa can be advantageous in generating biogas from human feaces. It was discovered that renewable energy devices are quite expensive; hence, the biogas option for cooking and powering gas generators seem to be sustainable as its technology can be modified to suit the users' financial base. Therefore, it is projected that if the human excretal biogas can be adopted, Africa will soon overcome its energy crisis through the doggedness of its standalone users.

Effect of Slice Priority for admission control in 5G Wireless Networks: A comparison study for two Fuzzy-based systems considering Software-Defined-Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Phudit Ampririt ◽  
Yi Liu ◽  
Makoto Ikeda ◽  
Keita Matsuo ◽  
Leonard Barolli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Admission Control ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Additional Parameter ◽  
Fifth Generation ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Grade Of Service ◽  
User Request ◽  
Control Decision ◽  
And Control

The Fifth Generation (5G) networks are expected to be flexible to satisfy demands of high-quality services such as high speed, low latencies and enhanced reliability from customers. Also, the rapidly increasing amount of user devices and high user’s requests becomes a problem. Thus, the Software-Defined Network (SDN) will be the key function for efficient management and control. To deal with these problems, we propose a Fuzzy-based SDN approach. This paper presents and compares two Fuzzy-based Systems for Admission Control (FBSAC) in 5G wireless networks: FBSAC1 and FBSAC2. The FBSAC1 considers for admission control decision three parameters: Grade of Service (GS), User Request Delay Time (URDT) and Network Slice Size (NSS). In FBSAC2, we consider as an additional parameter the Slice Priority (SP). So, FBSAC2 has four input parameters. The simulation results show that the FBSAC2 is more complex than FBSAC1, but it has a better performance for admission control.

Filtration of Terrorism-Related Texts in the E-Government Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Rasim M. Alguliyev ◽  
Ramiz M. Aliguliyev ◽  
Gunay Y. Niftaliyeva
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Information And Communication

E-government expresses the process of utilizing advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) to automate internal activities of government agencies and their external relations with citizens and businesses. All these interactions provide better, faster and more secure public services. In this article, a method for the detection of terrorism-related activities in the e-government environment has been suggested. In the proposed method, terrorism-related activities are defined based on the similarity between the users' opinions and the vocabulary database created linked to terrorism.

Association between Participation in an Intensive Longitudinal Assessment Program and Performance on a Cognitive Examination in the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program®

2016 ◽  
Vol 125 (5) ◽  
pp. 1046-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaping Sun ◽  
Yan Zhou ◽  
Deborah J. Culley ◽  
Cynthia A. Lien ◽  
Ann E. Harman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Longitudinal Assessment ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Maintenance Of Certification ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
First Time

Abstract Background As part of the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program® (MOCA®), the American Board of Anesthesiology (Raleigh, North Carolina) developed the MOCA Minute program, a web-based intensive longitudinal assessment involving weekly questions with immediate feedback and links to learning resources. This observational study tested the hypothesis that individuals who participate in the MOCA Minute program perform better on the MOCA Cognitive Examination (CE) compared with those who do not participate. Methods Two separate cohorts of individuals eligible for July 2014 and January 2015 CEs were invited to participate in this pilot. The CE scores for each cohort were compared between those who did and did not participate, controlling for the factors known to affect performance. For the first cohort, examination performances for topics covered and not covered by the MOCA Minute were analyzed separately. Results Six hundred sixteen diplomates in July 2014 and 684 diplomates in January 2015 took the CE for the first time. In multiple regression analysis, those actively participating scored 9.9 points (95% CI, 0.8 to 18.9) and 9.3 points (95% CI, 2.3 to 16.3) higher when compared with those not enrolled, respectively. Compared to the group that did not enroll in MOCA Minute, those who enrolled but did not actively participate demonstrated no improvement in scores. MOCA Minute participation was associated with improvement in both questions covering topics included the MOCA Minute and questions not covering these topics. Conclusions This analysis provides evidence that voluntary active participation in a program featuring frequent knowledge assessments accompanied by targeted learning resources is associated with improved performance on a high-stakes CE.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Tsapko-Piddubna
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asset Building ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Entrepreneurship Policy ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Eastern European Countries

The primary intension behind this study is to assess and compare policies that deliver inclusive outcomes to economic growth and development across economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The EU and Norway (the most inclusive country in 2018) were added into the study as a benchmark countries. As a result of the comparative analysis based on the World Economic Forum Inclusive Growth Policy and Institution Framework, we argue in favor of policies that would increase broad-based human economic opportunities and consequently both equality, and economic well-being of CEE economies. Positive strong influence on inclusive growth and development is associated with the employment and labor compensation policy that allows people directly increase their incomes; the basic services and infrastructure policy which is a necessary ground for present and future human and economic development; the asset building and entrepreneurship policy should provide diminishing inequality and rising economic opportunities by fostering medium and small business creation and enlarging possibilities of home and other asset ownership. In addition, an effective and inclusive redistribution state system of CEE economies should accentuate on supporting broad-based economic opportunities (like productive employment possibilities, asset building and entrepreneurship possibilities), along with infrastructure and human basic services development, rather than solely on social fiscal transfers.

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