The newly born, one year old State of Southern Sudan faces multiple challenges, economic, administrative, ethnic and most of all, civil conflicts with its previous mother country, Sudan. Building a state is an arduous mission and building a nation comprised of many ethnicities is the most...

Integrated decisionmaking is the foundational principle of sustainable development. Other principles, including the precautionary approach or principle, intergenerational equity, and public participation, all depend on integrated decisionmaking. Unsustainable development results from the...

E-government holds the promise of improving administrative efficiency and citizen participation, but can also reinforce traditional administrative processes. This paper reviews the evidence, mainly from case studies, of these processes. It looks both at Asia-Pacific jurisdictions, and the wider...

Strategic Planning (SP) in today’s dynamic and complex global environment needs to adopt new approaches about the design and implementation phases including major factors like new information technology as it related to Virtual Environment and directing the different stakeholders and people...

Innovations like Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have today become an integral and indispensable facilitator in the business organizations. Sri Lanka is fast progressing into ICT. Computerized information system is used as a competitive weapon by the managers of the companies to...

In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program...

Information, sustainability indicators and efficient public services are a permanent challenge for cities concerned with citizens' quality of life and effective local government. The objective of this study is to describe and assess the digital city projects in Chicago and Schaumburg (USA),...

At date, there is no standardized definition of what a smart city is, in spite many apply to propose a definition that fit with their offer, subsuming the whole of the city in one of its functions (smart grid, smart mobility…). Considering the smart cities as an ecosystem, that is to say a...

Croatian Abstract: Kulturni turizam je važan da bi se sačuvala i shvatila vrijednost kulturne baštine. Međunarodne organizacije zakonskom regulacijom određuju globalne okvire ponašanja spram baštine, a Europska unija financijskim instrumentima omogućava realizaciju programa i projekata...

The study aimed at empirically investigating the influence of Osborne dam on the socio-economic development of ward 23, Makoni District. The research was carried out in three villages Kawadza, Nyatito and Dumba, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Questionnaire, interviews guide,...