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Digital Government Revisited – III

10 August 20201 April 2021
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Governance, Human Development, ICTD, Open Government
Institutions matter, more so for the development and implementation of Digital Government (DG), whose core target is public institutions’ transformation. On the one hand, public institutions should have an array of capacities to ensure public investments in digital technologies are Read more

E-government Development II

30 May 201914 July 2019
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Governance, Human Development, Open Government
In this sequel post, I will look at the various components of the UNDESA e-government index and then introduce the EIU democracy index to explore potential interlinks between the two,  Components The e-government development index (EGDI) comprises three distinct components Read more

E-government Development I

10 May 201910 July 2019
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, ICTD, Innovation, Open Government
Birth Running on the coattails of the now infamous dot-com bubble, e-government first saw the light of day before the end of the last Millennium. At that time, where hype overtook the tech scene yet again, adding ‘e’ (as in Read more

Status of ICT diffusion in Nigeria

26 September 201621 March 2019
Raul Zambrano
ICTD, Open Government
I have been engaged on a short term Nigeria-based consultancy on the role ICTs1 Just in case, ICTs = Information and Communication Technologies. could play in promoting citizen engagement in public policy and decision-making processes – or what some call Read more

Relation between ICT Adoption and State Capacity

15 July 201618 January 2021
Raul Zambrano
ICTD, Open Government
Introduction According to many observers, the rapid diffusion of new ICTs such as the Internet and social media has empowered people worldwide. Today, social media users, for example, have direct access to the public sphere and can thus launch campaigns Read more

Governments, Crowdsourcing and Innovation

2 March 201515 October 2021
Raul Zambrano
Crowdsourcing, Open Government, Social Innovation
The paper on the role of governments in crowdsourcing I presented at the last ICEGOV 2014 gathering in Guimaraes, Portugal, is now available here – in this blog. The paper was supposed to be published by ACM Press as part Read more

Pakistan Interview: e-governance and development

23 December 201430 July 2019
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Open Government, Social Innovation
I gave the following interview to a local business newspaper during my mission to Pakistan. The interview was published on 15 December. BR Research: You have previously worked in Pakistan. How was the e-governance situation like back then, and how Read more
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