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Book Synopsis World E Parliament Report 2010 by : United Nations
Download or read book World E Parliament Report 2010 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report draws on information provided by 134 assemblies from around the world. The Report, prepared by the Global Centre for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Parliament, intends to help legislatures to harness the potential benefits of ICT for their work and establish key goals and priorities for exploiting this valuable resource.
Book Synopsis World E-Parliament Report 2010 by : United Nations
Download or read book World E-Parliament Report 2010 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report draws on information provided by 134 assemblies from around the world. The Report, prepared by the Global Centre for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Parliament, intends to help legislatures to harness the potential benefits of ICT for their work and establish key goals and priorities for exploiting this valuable resource.
Book Synopsis World E-Parliament Report 2012 by : United Nations
Download or read book World E-Parliament Report 2012 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World e-Parliament Report 2012 presents the latest data on the use and availability of systems, applications, hardware and tools in parliaments all over the world. The findings presented in the report are based on the results of the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012 conducted by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament between February and May 2012. Comparisons are offered in the 2008 and 2010 editions. The report provides readers with concrete examples of the adoption of ICT in the most significant areas of parliamentary business. The report is intended to be read in conjunction with the 2008 and 2010 reports
Book Synopsis World E-Parliament Report 2012 by : United Nations
Download or read book World E-Parliament Report 2012 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World e-Parliament Report 2012 presents the latest data on the use and availability of systems, applications, hardware and tools in parliaments all over the world. The findings presented in the report are based on the results of the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012 conducted by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament between February and May 2012. Comparisons are offered in the 2008 and 2010 editions. The report provides readers with concrete examples of the adoption of ICT in the most significant areas of parliamentary business. The report is intended to be read in conjunction with the 2008 and 2010 reports
Book Synopsis E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation: Concept, Experiences and Lessons by : Sobaci, Mehmet Zahid
Download or read book E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation: Concept, Experiences and Lessons written by Sobaci, Mehmet Zahid and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts such as e-voting, e-democracy, e-participation, online campaigning, and e-parliament are the most powerful proof of the use of ICTs in political activities, processes, and institutions. E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation: Concept, Experiences and Lessons presents a conceptual framework regarding e-parliament and analyzes the impacts of ICTs on the structure of parliament, its functions, relations with other actors, and the legislative process. As a result of the means and opportunities created by ICTs, parliaments have had a chance to simplify and integrate their administrative processes and involve citizens in legislative processes. This book reflects on new understandings, developments, and practices in parliaments within the framework of ICT usage.
Book Synopsis World E-parliament Report 2016 by : Andy Williamson
Download or read book World E-parliament Report 2016 written by Andy Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is intended to be read as a stand-alone document but can be seen as a continuation of the series that began when the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament published the first World e-Parliament Report, in 2008, and continued with the 2010 and 2012 reports. It contains an analysis and discussion of the survey of parliaments, which drew responses from 114 parliamentary chambers in 88 countries, and the PMO survey of 33 organizations from 31 countries. This report highlights the following: ICT is a core enabler in strengthening and transforming parliaments. Parliaments should do more to engage at the highest political level with the potential for digital transformation. To realize the real benefits of ICT, parliaments need to make a commitment to a vision and to strategic change supported at the highest levels of the institution. Lack of funding and insufficient knowledge among staff and members remain as key challenges for parliaments to use ICT effectively. Parliaments are continuing to adopt technologies internally, including: document management systems to support the legislative process, though often hampered by a lack of resources; cloud-based technologies, which are starting to change the way parliaments manage documents and data; wireless networks, now ubiquitous within parliaments; Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) for parliamentary documents along with the adoption of open data standards. Parliamentary libraries remain a primary source of such innovation. The external face of parliament has changed, though the importance of existing assets such as websites and email remains strong: In a digital world that is now decidedly multi-channel, social media has become a key strategic communication channel for parliaments. It can be difficult, however, for parliaments to know how members are using these new tools and how best to support them. Email remains a primary communication channel for members; parliamentary websites are another continuing core asset in providing information, documentation and data. A small but growing number of parliaments are evaluating their web assets. The importance of open data for parliaments will continue to grow, but there is evidence that parliaments are struggling to make such data available and accessible for citizens. Parliaments need to reach out more effectively to citizens and others: They have not been very innovative in finding ways to engage citizens directly in the legislative process, though an increasing number are now experimenting with different forms of citizen participation in parliamentary work. They are currently unable to offer sufficient inter-parliamentary support to their peers in the areas of open data, application development, social media, or engagement and outreach generally.
Book Synopsis Global Parliamentary Report by : Greg Power
Download or read book Global Parliamentary Report written by Greg Power and published by Inter-Parliamentary Union. This book was released on 2012 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World e-Parliament Report 2012 presents the latest data on the use and availability of systems, applications, hardware and tools in parliaments all over the world. The findings presented in the report are based on the results of the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012 conducted by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament between February and May 2012. Comparisons are offered in the 2008 and 2010 editions. The report provides readers with concrete examples of the adoption of ICT in the most significant areas of parliamentary business. The report is intended to be read in conjunction with the 2008 and 2010 reports.
Book Synopsis Parliaments and Citizens by : Cristina Leston-Bandeira
Download or read book Parliaments and Citizens written by Cristina Leston-Bandeira and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between parliaments and citizens is one of the least studied subjects in legislative studies, yet this is a crucial dimension to understand parliaments and the role they play in our political systems. Furthermore, this relationship has gained considerable visibility over the last decade thanks in part to the development of new media, but also as a reaction to the trends of political apathy. In a context of increasing political disengagement, parliamentary discourse shifted attention from the traditionally predominant relationship with government to the relationship with citizens. Issues of legitimacy became more directly associated with the link between parliament and citizens, resulting in investment in new and more complex mechanisms for contact with citizens, even in the more centralised systems. This book looks at a wide range of case studies across Europe and beyond, assessing overall strategies in the move towards stronger engagement with citizens. It assesses the extent to which the shift in discourse has led to actual changes in parliamentary practice. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.
Book Synopsis Benchmarking and Self-Assessment for Parliaments by : Mitchell O'Brien
Download or read book Benchmarking and Self-Assessment for Parliaments written by Mitchell O'Brien and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With international focus on good governance and parliamentary effectiveness, a standards-based approach involving benchmarks and assessment frameworks has emerged to evaluate parliament's performance and guide its reforms. The World Bank's has been a leader in the development of these frameworks, stewarding a global multi-stakeholder process aimed at enhancing consensus around parliamentary benchmarks and indicators with international organizations and parliaments across the world. The results so far, some of which are captured in this book, are encouraging: countries as diverse as Australia, Canada, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zambia have used these frameworks for self-evaluation and to guide efficiency-driven reforms. Donors and practitioners, too, are finding the benchmarks useful as baselines against which they can assess the impact of their parliamentary strengthening programs. The World Bank itself is using these frameworks to surface the root causes of performance problems and explore how to engage with parliamentary institutions in order to achieve better results. The World Bank can identify opportunities to help improve the oversight function of parliament, thus holding governments to account, giving 'voice' to the poor and disenfranchised, and improving public policy formation in order to achieve a nation's development goals. In doing so, we are helping make parliaments themselves more accountable to citizens and more trusted by the public.
Book Synopsis Freedom in the World 2010 by : Freedom House
Download or read book Freedom in the World 2010 written by Freedom House and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 193 countries and a group of select territories are used by policy makers, the media, international corporations, and civic activists and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. Press accounts of the survey findings appear in hundreds of influential newspapers in the United States and abroad and form the basis of numerous radio and television reports. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.
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Book Synopsis Digital Literacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by : Management Association, Information Resources
Download or read book Digital Literacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 1836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Literacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications presents a vital compendium of research detailing the latest case studies, architectures, frameworks, methodologies, and research on Digital Democracy. With contributions from authors around the world, this three-volume collection presents the most sophisticated research and developments from the field, relevant to researchers, academics, and practitioners alike. In order to stay abreast of the latest research, this book affords a vital look into Digital Literacy research.
Book Synopsis The Impact of Legislatures by : Philip Norton
Download or read book The Impact of Legislatures written by Philip Norton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world. Encompassing theory, comparative analysis, and county-based empirical studies, the volume examines the impact of legislatures as the key representative institutions of nations, addressing their relationships both to government and to the people. Legislatures are ubiquitous. They provide legitimacy to measures of public policy and to government. As such, they are key to how a nation is governed. But they do much more than confer legitimacy. They are generally multi-functional and functionally adaptable bodies, and are an essential link between citizen and government. However, scholarship on them has not been extensive and has often been descriptive and country- specific, limiting the capacity to make sense of them as a particular species of institution. The chapters in this volume reflect scholarship that helps the reader appreciate the significance of the place and consequences of legislatures, examining not only the relationship between the legislature and the executive, but also the oft-neglected relationship between legislatures and the people. Reflecting the growing body of research in the field of legislative studies, carried by The Journal of Legislative Studies since its inception in 1995, The Impact of Legislatures is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the impact of legislatures in the world today.
Book Synopsis Freedom in the World 2011 by : Freedom House
Download or read book Freedom in the World 2011 written by Freedom House and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 194 countries and 14 territories are used by policymakers, the media, international corporations, civic activists, and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.
Book Synopsis The Capability Approach, Technology and Design by : Ilse Oosterlaken
Download or read book The Capability Approach, Technology and Design written by Ilse Oosterlaken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capability approach of Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen places human capabilities at the centre stage of discussions about justice, equality, development and the quality of life. It rejects too much emphasis on mere preference satisfaction or resource provision and highlights the importance of human agency and freedom. This approach has already significantly influenced different fields of application, such as economics and development studies. Only recently have scholars started to explore its relevance for and application to the area of technology and design, which can be crucial factors in the expansion of human capabilities. How does technology influence human capabilities? What difference could a capability approach make to policies and practices of applying ICT in development processes in the South? How can we criticize and improve the design of technology from the perspective of the capability approach? The authors of this volume explore the implications of the capability approach for technology & design and together create the first volume on this emerging topic.
Book Synopsis E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans by : Euripidis Loukis
Download or read book E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans written by Euripidis Loukis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development and the growing penetration of information and communication technologies (ICT) provide tremendous opportunities for a wide and cost effective application of the ideas of participative democracy and public participation in government decision and policy making. ICT can drive dramatic transformations in the quantity and quality of communication and interaction of government organizations with citizens, revitalizing and strengthening the modern representative democracy which currently faces big problems of reduced citizens’ trust and involvement. This book deals with the application of these e-participation ideas in the special and ‘difficult’, and at the same time highly interesting, national context of Southern Europe and the Balkans. The first chapter provides an overview of e-participation concepts and practices whilst the following chapters analyse pilot applications of e-participation concepts in eight different Southern European and Balkan countries (Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania, Greece, Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)). They cover both the ‘classical’ e-participation paradigm, based on official e-participation spaces created, operated and controlled by government organizations as well as emerging new e-participation paradigms including e-participation based on web 2.0 social media, and ‘scientific-level’ e-participation, based on opening government data to the scientific community. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.
Book Synopsis Reference and Information Services by : Melissa A. Wong
Download or read book Reference and Information Services written by Melissa A. Wong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a textbook for LIS students taking reference courses, this fully updated and revised seventh edition of Reference and Information Services: An Introduction also serves as a helpful handbook for practitioners to refamiliarize themselves with particular types and formats of sources and to refresh their knowledge on specific service topics. The first section grounds the rest of the textbook with an overview of the foundations of reference and an introduction to the theories, values, and standards that guide reference service. The second section provides an overview of reference services and techniques for service provision, establishing a foundation of knowledge on reference service and extending ethical and social justice perspectives. The third part offers an overview of the information life cycle and dissemination of information, followed by an in-depth examination of information sources by type as well as by broad subject areas. Finally, the concluding section guides the reader through the process of developing and maintaining their own vision of reference practice. This textbook is essential reading for all preservice and working librarians, particularly those concerned with ethical and social justice perspectives on reference work.
