Message-ID: <29EF66B36BC@fs1.ec.man.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:39:27 BST From: Dr Richard Heeks <mailto:mzdid10@FS1.EC.MAN.AC.UK> Subject: Harnessing IT in DC Public Sector To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
If you have an interest in IT use to improve government and public sector organisations in developing countries, then the following book will be relevant:'Reinventing Government in the Information Age: International Practice in IT-Enabled Public Sector Reform' (Routledge 0-415-19037-1).
Chapters identifying successful and unsuccessful management approaches are complemented by a dozen case studies from the US, UK, mainland Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Cases include: - the application of IT to 'downsizing' exercises in Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe - the use of IT in decentralisation of health management in Ecuador - the experience of community development and democratisation using IT in South Africa - development of a national IT strategy for Barbados
The book provides an educators' guide to using the cases for individual and group training.
Further details and order/examination copy information from: http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm/rgia.htm
Other queries to the editor: mailto:richard.heeks@man.ac.uk
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