Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia

Logged On looks at mobile and smart phone technology through the lens of good government management. How will developing governments deliver goods and services that citizens care about? How will government in these countries leapfrog over traditional public management reforms to help reach out to an...

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Main Authors: Bhatti, Zubair K., Zall Kusek, Jody, Verheijen, Tony
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Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20487
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spelling okr-10986-204872021-04-23T14:03:56Z Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia Bhatti, Zubair K. Zall Kusek, Jody Verheijen, Tony ICT information and communication technology cellular phones government management service delivery reforms smart management Logged On looks at mobile and smart phone technology through the lens of good government management. How will developing governments deliver goods and services that citizens care about? How will government in these countries leapfrog over traditional public management reforms to help reach out to and collaborate directly with the citizen? This book provides example after example where this has happened and how mobile technology has helped provide solutions to old problems. Our astounding revelation that mobile technology is helping to fight corruption in Pakistan, improve health delivery in Bangladesh, provide access to government by the ordinary citizen in India, and help monitor elections in Afghanistan. If this Is possible in some place in poor South Asian countries considered the most poor in the world, then how can these examples be spread to further in these counties or in other countries? Logged on provides a look back on conventional solutions that have mostly not worked and why mobile solutions are taking hold. The book offers a model called Smart Proactive Government based on a Feedback model being used in Punjab, Pakistan. The book also offers five solutions that are present in every successful mobile and smart phone example that the authors reviewed. 2014-10-29T16:21:57Z 2014-10-29T16:21:57Z 2015 978-1-4648-0312-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20487 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication South Asia South Asia Afghanistan Bangladesh India Pakistan Sri Lanka
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information and communication technology
cellular phones
government management
service delivery reforms
smart management
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information and communication technology
cellular phones
government management
service delivery reforms
smart management
Bhatti, Zubair K.
Zall Kusek, Jody
Verheijen, Tony
Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
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Afghanistan
Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
description Logged On looks at mobile and smart phone technology through the lens of good government management. How will developing governments deliver goods and services that citizens care about? How will government in these countries leapfrog over traditional public management reforms to help reach out to and collaborate directly with the citizen? This book provides example after example where this has happened and how mobile technology has helped provide solutions to old problems. Our astounding revelation that mobile technology is helping to fight corruption in Pakistan, improve health delivery in Bangladesh, provide access to government by the ordinary citizen in India, and help monitor elections in Afghanistan. If this Is possible in some place in poor South Asian countries considered the most poor in the world, then how can these examples be spread to further in these counties or in other countries? Logged on provides a look back on conventional solutions that have mostly not worked and why mobile solutions are taking hold. The book offers a model called Smart Proactive Government based on a Feedback model being used in Punjab, Pakistan. The book also offers five solutions that are present in every successful mobile and smart phone example that the authors reviewed.
format Publications & Research :: Publication
author Bhatti, Zubair K.
Zall Kusek, Jody
Verheijen, Tony
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Zall Kusek, Jody
Verheijen, Tony
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title Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
title_short Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
title_full Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
title_fullStr Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
title_full_unstemmed Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
title_sort logged on : smart government solutions from south asia
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2014
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20487
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