...source practice? In order to identify some of these attributes, we conducted a preliminary survey of the quality practices of a number of successful open source projects. We focus, in...
The Global Forum on Internet Governance held by the UNICT Task Force in New York on 25-26 March concluded that Internet governance issues were many and complex. The Secretary-General’s Working...
The G-24 Discussion Paper Series is a collection of research papers prepared under the UNCTAD Project of Technical Support to the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs (G-24)....
In the wake of 9/11 and corporate debacles such as Enron, organizations are taking a serious look at their information technology (IT) groups and questioning the governance models necessary to...
In recent years, business leaders, policymakers, and inventors have complained to the media and to Congress that today’s patent system stifles innovation instead of fostering it. But like the infamous...
Governments are moving towards ushering in an age of electronic governance or e-governance. However, they are facing the problem of investing in solutions that do not integrate with the rest...
...focus on structuring state lawmaking and limiting state powers, are thus of limited use. How are we to comprehend this emergent global order? More particularly, how are we to comprehend...
...to employ state of the art technology to pursue a broad spectrum of goals, such as increasing national competitiveness, providing next-generation broadband access for all, creating a “transparent and connected...
...them to morph into different problems. “Wicked Problems” are associated with multiple diverse stakeholders, high levels of interdependence, competing values, and social and political complexity. To top it off, while...
Interoperability is a key enabler of the information and knowledge sharing necessary for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to deliver on the promise of government transformation. Interoperability is not an...