Sunday 11 November 2012

Electronic Government in General

Definitions of E-Government.

e-Government basically refers to the use of information and communication technology to provide and improve government services, transactions and interactions with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government.
Like all European countries show e-Government initiatives, mainly related to the improvement of governance at the national level. OR
Is a general term describing the use of technologies to facilitate the operation of government and the disbursement of government information and services. 
From the researcher's point of view; it deals heavily with Internet applications to aid in governments.

Botswana e-Government

The Botswana E-government aims at improving the communications and information flow between the citizens and the Government. Since Botswana is a third world country moving up the ladder, this will enable Botswana citizens even visitors a convenient access to the government on-line services and information.

The ability to receive reliable information services and information over the Internet enhances the ability of citizens to fully utilize and benefit from government services. This aids in the nation reaching  the vision 2016 which states;
"Vision 2016 is Botswana's strategy to propel its socio-economic and political development into a competitive, winning and prosperous nation. Seven key goals have been developed to achieve this. The vision reflects the aspirations of Botswana about their long-term future and is a result of extensive consultations with a wide spectrum of individuals and institutions in the country".
Coat of Arms 

This allows easy and speedy retrieval of relevant information and related services. Information from all ministries and authorities is presented fro various target audiences; parents,children,youth, investors, businesses etc. like for example; If a person does not know which ministry is in charge of a specific service, he/she will be able to access the service intuitively.

4 comments:

  1. E-Government, as known as electronic government, refers to government's use of information technology to exchange information and services with citizens,businesses, and other arms of government. The implementation of the e-Government would improve internal efficiency,the delivery of public services, or processes of democratic governance and better accessibility of public services.
    According to the researcher; this will only be efficient in the city and towns as compared to remote areas in the country. So this factor should be looked into so that other people in the remote areas of the country are not left out behind.

    The Primary delivery models are Government-to-citizen or government-to-customer(G2C), government-to-business(G2B) and government-to-government(G2G) even government-to-employes(G2E). Again often e-government is thought of as"online government" there are non-internet"electronic-government" technologies can be used in this context such as telephone, fax, MMS, wireless networks and services, biometric identification TV and radio based delivery of government services and online community facilities.
    In certain countries such as the United Kingdom, there is interest in using electronic government to re-engage citizens with the political process. In particular, it is to introduce the system of electronic voting. The aim is to increase voter turnout by making voting easy for the people. On the other hand, the UK e-commission has expressed concern about the potential for fraud with some electronic voting methods.

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  2. E-government is the best way to improve activities of public organization sectors and develops communication between government and other parties outside the sector. Good work.

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