 Emerging Technologies in eGovernance
Innovations in ICT provide new opportunities for eGovernance. This sections highlights ongoing trends that shape eGovernance development.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
FOSS programs are programs whose licenses give users the freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and modify the program, and to redistribute copies of either the original or modified program without having to pay royalties to previous developers.
Link to wikibook about FOSS introduction
In the context of eGovernance FOSS provide the benefit of no costs for licenses which free substantial part of eGovernance project budgets. The open source community provides a vast pool of software solutions which can be applied in various eGovernance areas. The often missing usability of FOSS has improved a lot in recent years and nowadays FOSS solution often overrun the quality of closed source and commercial software. Moreover, the availability of source code allows the modification and integration of applications to the respective eGovernance context specific needs.
Following are some of favorite Open Source tools, technologies and frameworks that are used to build solutions:
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Linux
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Operating system of our choice. Our flavor of Linux Implementation is from RedHat. For more information on RedHat Linux, please visit www.redhat.com .
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Apache
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Apache is the most popular web server since 1996. More information is available at www.apache.org
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MySQL
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MySQL is an extremely popular Open Source database. More information is available at www.mysql.com
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PHP
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PHP is an open source, cross platform scripting language. More information is available at www.php.net .
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Perl
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Perl is an open source, cross platform programming language. More information is available at www.perl.org .
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Python
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Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. More information is available at www.python.org .
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Zope
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Zope is an application server, content management system and a real-time search engine. More information is available at www.zope.org .
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Plone
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Plone is a content management system built on top of the Zope framework. More information is available at www.plone.org .
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OpenLDAP
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OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. More information is available at www.openldap.org .
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Webalizer
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Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. More information is available at www.webalizer.com .
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JBoss Portal
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JBoss Portal is the next generation open source content management system (CMS) and portal framework from JBoss. More information is available at JBoss .
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JOnAS
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JOnAS (Java Open Application Server) is a pure Java open source implementation of the EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) specification. More information is available at http://jonas.objectweb.org/ .
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Mambo
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Powerful Open Source Content Management System based on PHP and MySQL. More information is available at http://www.mamboserver.com/
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Media Integration
Media Integration or multi-channel distribution deals with the provison of eGovernment services using a variaty of communication channels including internet, TV, SMS, telephone or service stations.
Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services
Semantic Web Technologies and eGovernance Ontologies
UCAD and Microsoft sign an Agreement  
Written By Pierre dandjinou - 23/06/2007
 L’Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) et Microsoft ont signe hier a Dakar un accord de partenariat qui permet de ‘’domicilier la certification de microsoft dans l’Institution et d’aider a la vulgarisation de l’informatique a travers le pays. Selon le recteur de l’UCAD, 4 axes seront privilégies dont : les TIC ;les biotechnologies ; l’aquaculture et la confection. Selon le Recteur, UCAD dispose d’une population de 300 étudiants inscrits en informatique, d’un réseau de 6km de fibre optique, de 372 ordinateurs portables(distribues aux enseignants) et une bande passante ayant migre de 2megabits a 10 mégabits. Le partenariat avec Msoft devrait permettre d’avoir ‘’plus ou mieux’( ??) Pousuivant plus loin, le recteur estime que le Sénégal ‘’devra travailler a la production de logiciels didactiques en puisant dans nos valeurs, notre culture’’. Il est aussi question, a travers ce partenariat, d’augmenter les sites web du pays d’organiser des campus pédagogiques pendant les vacances et d’implanter l’informatique dans le monde rural (sic)….Assez ambitieux non ? A suivre
Ceci est quelque peu a rapprocher du Kenya dont le ministère en charge des TICs vient de décider de la création de 1000 Villages numériques , animes par des managers de villages numériques. .de quoi donner des emplois aux jeunes.. Read More
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09/02/2009 - Business Continuty / Risk Management
Business Continuty / Risk Management
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14/01/2009 - Handing-over of the Price UNESCO-King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Handing-over of the Price
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Third Regional High Level Forum on ICT for Enhanced Public Sector Performance
Tahir Djafar Basse
During 6 - 9 May 2007, close to 60 representatives from 15 countries in Southern, Eastern and West Africa gathered at the Rovuma Hotel in Maputo, Mozambique, for the Regional High Level Forum on ICT for Enhanced Public Sector Performance. The participants were high-level decision makers and practitioners from government.
The participants were composed of high level government leaders from Ministries and Directorates of Development and Planning, and Public Service as well as heads of partner development institutions. A number of UNDP Country Offices were also represented, including UNDP SURF West and Central Africa. See the annex for the full participants list.
The Forum started with a Pre-Conference on Sunday 6 May, on Transforming Public Service. It was then followed by two and a half day of presentations, sharing of country experiences and group dialogue on the application of ICT as a vehicle for enhancing Pubic Sector Performance.
This was the third Regional High Level Forum, and was the gathering of policy makers, practitioners and professionals in the Southern African countries. It enabled participants to develop mutual understanding of current and emerging development issues on ICT in the sub-region. Last year’s Forum focused on strategies, methodologies and tools for enhancing the capacity for effective delivery of public services, introducing the CODESURE Process of Engagement – Consensus Building, Design of Interventions, Support to Implementation and Review of Interventions. More than 50 participants attended.
The conference was held in English, and included plenary sessions with expertise from UNDP-SACI Team and invited guest presenters. It was a balanced blend of presentations, special focus sessions, practical demonstrations and debates on specific topics, as well as various informal networking opportunities where countries shared their experiences, ideas, new information and perspectives.
A number of parallel events took place alongside the conference, including special interest group getting-together, demonstration of specific aspects on innovation and best practice showcases.
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DistrictNet
Responsible for Project : Project Manager is district chairman, central government supports DistrictNet, strong involvement local community
Duration Of Project : 2002-2007
Country : Uganda
Status : En cours
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appui de procédé de décision
DistrictNet’s general goal was to improve the transparency of local government and to support decentralisation through the implementation of ICT, thus meeting the Ugandan government’s broader goal of decentralising its operations. The programme emphasises the domains of eadministration and e-services; e-society is not within its scope.
DistrictNet aims to achieve five overall goals:
1. increased availability of management information;
2. increased coordination between headquarters and sub-counties;
3. reduced costs of coordination between headquarters and sub-counties;
4. improved IT skills among users; and,
5. increased availability of public information. Read More
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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Ramata Molo Thioune
ICT for Development
 Volume 1 looks at the introduction, adoption, and utilization of ICTs at the community level. In various contexts – geographical, technological, socioeconomic, cultural, and institutional – the book explores the questions of community participation. It looks at how communities in sub-Saharan Africa have reacted to the changes brought about by the introduction of these new ICTs and, in detail, presents both the opportunities and the challenges that ICTs present for community development. The book will be useful for both researchers and development practitioners active, or just embarking upon, an “ICT for development†program. It will also be a very useful reference tool not only for academics but also for policymakers, decision-makers, and development professionals interested in the issue.
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Gender in the information Society:Emerging issues
Anita Gurumurthy, Parminder Jeet Singh, Anu Mundkur andMridula Swamy
Serie
This publication is a collection of 13 papers developed for a pre-World Summit on the Information Society seminar, developed in partnership with UNIFEM and IT for Change. It showcases perspectives that critique the engagement with new technologies in various development sectors such as the media, work and economy and governance. An edited video of the seminar was also produced.
© UNDP-APDIP, Elsevier, 2006, 142 pages
ISBN: 81-312-0632-7
[PDF, 990kB]
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