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title	Sharing Best Practices in Electronic Governance
speaker	Dr. Adegboyega Ojo
affiliation	The United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST)
abstract	This presentation provides the results of a meta-survey on global best practices in electronic governance as well as a survey on online presence and availability of public services. The meta-survey considered annual benchmarks reports from four major international organizations: The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Accenture, Brown University and the Economist/IBM Institute for Business Values, between 2000 and 2004. Three categories of results are presented: (i) state of global e-governance readiness (2000 - 2004), (ii) degree of online presence of countries (as at 2004) and (iii) availability of 20 common services on government websites (as at 2004). In particular the report identifies specific countries that have reached the highest level of sophistication in the electronic delivery of these 20 public services as best practices. Finally the latest report by UNDESA on Global e-Governance Readiness for 2005 is discussed with emphasis on the performance on African countries and Nigeria in particular.
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bio	Adegboyega Ojo is Project Staff at the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST), Macao SAR. He is on leave from the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Lagos where he is a Senior Lecturer. Before his engagement at UNU-IIST, he had led major software development projects involving large multinationals in Nigeria. He has first hand knowledge in working with the public sector through his on-going participation in the Macao e-Government Project - a project which creates the strategic direction and foundation for e-government development in Macao. He is currently involved with a number of survey, research, capacity development and software infrastructure building tasks within the project. His research interest includes e-Government, Conceptual Modelling, Ontology Development and applications of Computational Intelligence. His particular interest in e-Government includes Measurement and Benchmarking, e-Service Development, Inter-government Workflow Management and Semantic Interoperability. He holds a Bachelor and Doctorate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE Computer Society and Computer Professionals of Nigeria.